Gangsters Can't Win #7

Charles Holt's marriage prospects take a backseat when his younger brother Everett enlists to escape scandal, dragging Charles into the Army as well—where conscience and duty collide in the trenches of the Great War. As the brothers find themselves under fire together, Charles must grapple with a fateful decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A wartime tale of moral reckoning that asks whether a man can ever truly escape the consequences of his choices.

When a body surfaces in a Maryland swamp two months after Angel Marlin's sudden elopement to Paris, Chief of Police Ralph Burns and Sergeant Moynahan uncover a carefully orchestrated deception—one that reaches across the Atlantic to expose a conspiracy far darker than a jilted lover's disappearance. Working from his desk three thousand miles away, Burns pieces together clues of switched identities, acid-burned evidence, and forged cablegrams to unmask the truth behind the murder. This is detective work at its finest: patience, observation, and the cunning to outmaneuver killers who thought themselves safely beyond reach.

Whit Denham returns to Singapore after six months in the jungle, eager to settle down with Marion Cobb—but a dangerous impostor with a scarred face has already checked into the hotel with sinister plans. When the impostor reveals himself as George Bunin, a college acquaintance now working for a foreign power, Denham's luck finally runs out, and Marion becomes caught in a web of espionage, biological weapons, and kidnapping that neither of them saw coming.

Detective Lew Tucker arrives at a Florida estate to guard against jewel thieves, only to find himself investigating a robbery at the home of wealthy Mr. Brisbane—a crime that leaves the hired detective unconscious and the house ransacked, yet mysteriously spares a fifty-thousand-dollar pearl necklace hidden in plain sight. Suspecting the thief will return for another attempt, Tucker devises a trap using the necklace as bait to unmask the impostor behind the scheme.

William Dix, a famous American detective, and his secretary travel to Brazil to investigate the legendary "Dying Men of Paranha"—a baffling mystery surrounding deaths in the jungle that has claimed every white man who ventured there. From a suspicious car crash in New York to a dangerous shooting in Rio, someone seems determined to stop Dix from reaching the oil fields, and aboard a river boat headed into the Amazon, an unknown assailant strikes again. Dix must uncover who's behind the attacks and what secret the Paranha jungle is hiding before he becomes another victim of the curse.