In this issue we've got Richard Stark's professional thief
Parker, looking for someone to rob after a nice gig falls through in Nobody Runs Forever,
and Richard Aleas' New-York private eye John Blake, looking for answers when his high-school
sweetheart falls through the cracks in the Edgar-nominated Little Girl Lost.
Nobody Runs Forever
Professional thief Parker and some professional associates had just started a friendly game of
cards when he noticed that one of them wore a wire. After the man had been quickly and quietly
excused, the game broke up and they all went their separate ways. Parker felt secure enough -
only one of them had known him personally, and that one was only known to the others by his first name... MORE >>
Little Girl Lost
We all have that first big love we'll never get over, when youthful idealism and teenage lust
mix to form a potion stronger than any drug. For John Blake, it was Miranda Sugarman. They'd been
together in high school, just two kids without a care, and when Miranda decided to go away to college
and become an eye doctor, he was happy for her. He sometimes thought of her that way, living a
modest middle-class life in some midwestern city, with a husband, a dog, and a couple of kids... MORE >>