UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · MYSTERY
Robert L. Fish
Also known as: Robert L. Fish, A.C. Lamprey
Robert Lloyd Fish was an American writer of crime fiction. His first novel, The Fugitive, gained him the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first novel in 1962, and his short story "Moonlight Gardener" was awarded the Edgar for best short story in 1972. His 1963 novel Mute Witness, written under the pseudonym Robert L. Pike, was filmed in 1968 as Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen. - Wikipedia
Darkly you sweep on, Eternal Fugitive, round whose bodiless rush stagnant space frets into eddying bubbles of light.
— from The fugitive
Most acclaimed
Trouble in paradise
It seemed logical that Captain Jose Da Silva of the Brazilian Federal Police Force, a man with a maverick reputation for problem solving, be the one assigned to solve Brazil's growing scourge of death squads. They were unpredictable and ran on their own agenda. So did Da Silva. His superiors knew he worked on the fringes of authority and would send him to the edge-to the remote border town of Paraiso. There had been five new underworld slayings and the signs pointed to a new kind of death squad. These killers were different. Their victims were different. The Captain's plan would have to be different as well.Planting a story in a Rio newspaper, Da Silva makes himself the brave bait to trap these perpetrators. But would he end up mincemeat for these murderers? Would the right killers bite? Or will there be too many takers to sort out? Would his own tight-knit plan become a noose around his own neck? Only a stunning young beauty with the smell of danger drifting in her wake can show the good captain the proper path to take. It's trouble in paradise.
Pursuit
New York Times–bestselling author Karen Robards weaves a complex tale of political conspiracy and a steamy love affair, in her sizzling new novel Pursuit.When rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan gets the call from John Riordan, the senior partner at the illustrious law firm for which she works, she thinks the plum assignment he offers her might be a life-changing moment. And she’s right, it is—only not in the way she hopes. It’s late on a Saturday night, and Riordan is busy—and, Jess can tell, well on his way to being drunk. He needs Jess to meet First Lady Annette Cooper, for whom Riordan is a personal lawyer, at a Washington, D.C., hotel. Jess is thrilled: This high-profile assignment must mean she’s on her way to bigger things. But bigger isn’t always better.Jess doesn’t remember much; only that in the course of the meeting with Annette Cooper she ended up in the backseat of a speeding car. All she knows is that the car crashes en route, killing the First Lady. Badly injured, Jess is the only survivor of what is trumpeted around the world as a tragic accident.Although she has no memory about the events leading up to the accident, Jess still wonders: Was it really an accident? The FBI agent on the case, Mark Ryan, senses Jess is hiding something. As Ryan’s suspicions grow, Jess’s world starts falling apart. Riordan suddenly dies of a heart attack, and his personal secretary also dies in a car accident on the way to his funeral. In fact, everyone who might possibly know the details about the First Lady’s meeting is dead. And then Jess understands: if she remembers that night, she’ll be dead too.Terrified and certain the First Lady’s death was no accident, Jess has only Mark Ryan to turn to. . . .
Stories to be Read with the Door Locked
1975
Hijack / Robert L. Fish -- Tomorrow and tomorrow / Adobe James -- Funeral in another town / Jerry Jacobson -- A case for quiet / William Jeffrey -- A good head for murder / Charles W. Runyon -- The invisible cat / Betty Ren Wright -- [Royal Jelly]( / Roald Dahl -- Light verse / Isaac Asimov -- The distributor / Richard Matheson -- How Henry J. Littlefinger licked the hippies' scheme to take over the country by tossing pot in postage stamp glue / John Keefauver -- The leak / Jacques Futrelle -- All the sounds of fear / Harlan Ellison -- Little foxes sleep warm / Waldo Carlton Wright -- The graft is green / Harold Q. Masur. View by the moonlight / Pat McGerr -- There hangs death! / John D. MacDonald -- Lincoln's doctor's son's dog / Warner Law -- Coyote street / Gary Brandner -- Zombique / Joseph Payne Brennan -- The pattern / Bill Pronzini -- Pipe dream / Alan Dean Foster -- Shottle bop / Theodore Sturgeon -- The magnum / Jack Ritchie -- Voices in the dust / Gerald Kersh -- The odor of melting / Edward D. Hoch -- The sound of murder / William P. McGivern -- The income tax mystery / Michael Gilbert -- Watch for it / Joseph N. Gores -- The affair of the twisted scarf / Rex Stout.