The Party Killer; City of Fading Light; Graveyard Plots

The Detective Book Club produced volumes of three crime novels from 1942 to 1999. Originally monthly, near the end they dwindled down to just a few per year. Many famous detective and crime novelists had their early works featured in DBC editions. Often, books were published in DBC editions before, or at the same time as they were published in mass market form. A little about our authors:

Hugh Pentecost: A pen name of Judson Philips, a man of many detectives. Under both names, Philips published over 100 books, most of which were in one of eight different series. The largest series featured Pierre Chambrun with 23 books. In spite of all these series, almost a quarter of his books were stand-alone novels. This is the fifteenth of sixteen in the Julian Quist series.

Jon Cleary: Australian Cleary wrote 50 mystery novels over a 61 year span. Twenty of those novels are in the Detective Scobie Malone series. Cleary passed away in 2010.

Bill Pronzini: Pronzini has written about 130 novels, novellas and collections, under a number of pen names, while also compiling 90 anthologies of short stories. His most famous character is the Nameless Detective. Graveyard Plots is a collection of twenty-three short stories of mystery and murder.