Hire a Hangman

Collin Wilcox

Summary

A surgeon is gunned down in the street—but who is the woman who wanted him dead?Brice Hanchett is a brilliant surgeon, and those who work alongside the man consider him either godlike or devilish. After years of success, he has begun to believe his own legend, and soon goes too far—toying not just with life and death, but with the heart of every woman he meets. He has a wife and a mistress, as well as the attention of all the nurses in the hospital. One of them is waiting for him when he goes out to his Jaguar, a gun in her hand. It takes only two shots to remind Brice Hanchett that even the finest surgeon cannot cheat death.Investigating the case falls to Lieutenant Frank Hastings and the boys in San Francisco Homicide. Learning that the killer was female should narrow the search, but with a victim like Hanchett, any woman—in scrubs or out—could be a suspect.

Available since: 11/05/2013.

Print length: 248 pages.

Other books that might interest you

Bukavu Blues

Peter Lewenstein

A murderous gang on the rampage. A country torn apart by brutal conflict. A man determined to stop the bloodshed. 
Watching his people suffer years of appalling violence has made human rights defender Patrice Le Congo grow weary and cynical. But when schoolteacher Aurélia Mukunda turns to him for help after a mutilated body is found in a village, he can’t say no. 
Patrice’s investigation takes him to lawless tin mines and hazardous encounters with rebel groups and renegade army units – to the heart of a seemingly never-ending war that’s brought death and destruction to eastern Congo. 
More gruesome murders follow, threatening to derail an international peace conference. Then the killers abduct Aurélia. And Patrice is faced with two challenges: to save the teacher and to save his country.  
Bukavu Blues is the opening novel chronicling the adventures of Patrice Le Congo – a series of crime stories with a global political dimension.

Show book

The Innocence of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's little flock, you know!" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. "When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets." Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor. O'Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man's nature and a mild appearance to go with it--and together those came together to become Chesterton's unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character, and the magazines he wrote for loved the stories. The Innocence of Father Brown was the first collection of them, and it's a great lot of fun.

Show book

Five Hundred Carats - An...

George Griffiths

George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones was born on 20th August, 1857, in Plymouth, South-West England to a clergyman father who was frequently moved to different parishes.

Although Griffith did briefly attend school there were only limited funds to provide a formal education for him and his elder brother. Consequently, they were primarily home schooled with their father teaching them Latin and Greek and their mother, French. There was also an extensive family library which Griffith devoured.

At 15 he joined a ship as an apprentice but deserted when it arrived in Australia to travel around for 4 years before working his passage back to England.

He settled in Sussex, to teach English at a prep school and studied at night to gain formal qualifications. After a further year of study at a German university he taught in Brighton but now his passion for writing also led him to journalism. He contributed to various pamphlets, newspaper and periodicals, writing on secularism and socialism as well as travelogues, volumes of poetry and, of course, short stories. His vivid writing style and knack for storytelling paved the way for his success as a novelist.

In 1893, Griffith published his first novel, ‘The Angel of the Revolution’, an instant success of dystopia featuring advanced aerial warfare and anarchist revolutionaries. Griffith's output of over a dozen novels and numerous short stories influenced later science fiction writers and left a lasting legacy in place. He also wrote romance, adventure and supernatural stories.

His writing was not always successful, and he often faced personal and financial difficulties.

George Griffith died at his home in Port Erin, Isle of Man of cirrhosis of the liver on 10th June, 1906. He was 48.

Show book

Buried Frozen plus You Are the...

A. J. Payler

What's buried beneath the frozen ground… will change his world forever 
The only thing that made those seemingly unending days in prison bearable was knowing what was waiting for him on the outside, buried deep in the frozen ground where she'd sworn to leave his share of the loot. 
And after years of isolation, all he has to do is dig it up, rejoin her, and get back to the life that's rightfully his.  
But even the best laid plans oft go awry. And sure, they'd never claimed to be the best of the best, but still… he never could have imagined what he'd find waiting for him, cold and dark at the bottom of that hole. 
From A. J. Payler, author of The Killing Song, Bank Error in Your Favor, and Terror Next Door comes Buried, Frozen—a story of the terror that lies at the heart of the human condition and the fear that creeps in the darkest, coldest hours of the night. 
  
Also featuring bonus story, You Are the Protagonist (as seen in Flash in a Flash)! 
As originally published in Dead of Winter: 13 Tales of Winter Terror (M Presents, January 31, 2024) and Flash in a Flash (May 13, 2024).

Show book

In a Flash

William Mangieri

Jimmy was a good cop, but age and changing times were getting the better of him. If he could only get an edge, take advantage of some of that new-fangled tech - what would be the harm? I mean, everybody cheats a little, don’t they? Just be careful not to get caught… Read “In a Flash” to see how Jimmy gets himself out of trouble. 
"In a Flash" is a piece of sci-fi/crime short fiction, the first story in the Detective Jimmy Delaney series. If you like a little self-deprecation and humor with some sci-fi elements thrown in (think "The Rockford Files" mashed up with the old BBC "The Avengers") this is the series for you.

Show book

The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie

The second book in Agatha Christie's famous detective series brings us to Detective Hercule Poirot's next case.Poirot and his friend Hastings receive an urgent call from France and immediately go to provide assistance only to find their would-be client brutally murdered and burried on a golf course. Stranger still, an identical body is uncovered shortly after. Between clashing with the local authorities and the victim's tumultous personal life, it will take all of Poirot's impeccable attention to detail, clever wit, and unshakeable confidence to solve this intriguing case . . . if he isn't already too late.

Show book