by Margaret Millar (1991)
"Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, inexplicably drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what seems to have been a trivial reason. Cleo's older brother, Hilton, hires Aragon to find the vulnerable girl and bring her back home ..." --
Dornford Yates
The three heroes of "Blind Corner" (Chandos, Hanbury & Mansel) battle their old foe, "Rose Noble" who has kidnapped a relative of Mansel (Adele Pleydell) in an attempt to recover the treasure (now converted into money) that he failed to win in their earlier encounter. Noble ultimately fails and is killed and Mansel nearly loses his life also.
Wylly Folk St. John
Seventeen-year-old Libby Clark signs up for a writers' conference on mysteries and becomes entangled in a real-life murder mystery.
George P. Pelecanos
A gang war breaks out between drug dealers in Washington after one man insults another. The protagonists are two drug-dealing friends, Dimitri Karras, a Greek, and Marcus Clay, an African American. Part crime novel, part analysis of our violent society.
William Lashner
Hard-luck Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl is just itching for the opportunity to sell out. Then good fortune comes knocking at his door in the guise of William Prescott III, a blue-blood attorney from one of the city's most prestigious firms. Prescott wants Victor to represent a councilman's aide who is on trial, along with his boss, for extortion, arson, and murder. It's the juiciest, highest-profile courtroom extravaganza in years -- and all Carl has to do is show up, shut up, and follow Prescott's lead.But it soon becomes clear that somene's setting him and his client up to take a long, hard fall. Victor Carl may be desperate and unethical but he's no one's patsy. And to survive in this legal snake pit of secrets, lies, and lethal double-crosses, he's going to play the game his way.