Mystery Books
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The Winds of ChangeRichard Jury embarks on the darkest investigation of his career when the dead body of a young London girl leads to the col
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Divine Justice (Camel Club)Following the instant # 1 New York Times bestseller Stone Cold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club re
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A Sight for Sore EyesTeddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy
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Dead HeatAfter a six-year absence from the bestseller lists, Dick Francis roared out of the gate with 2006's Under Orders, demonstra
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Even MoneyThe New York Times-bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel.O n the first day of Royal Asc
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Double WhammyR.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam
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Black Betty: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green" (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were
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Mystery Movies
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The PrestigeAward-winning actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson star in THE PRESTIGE, the twisting, turnin
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Phone BoothA single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance a
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The GameNicholas Van Orton is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments and
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CubeDVD. Feature film. Rated R.
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Mystic RiverThree friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them.
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Mystery Authors
Fredric Brown biography
Fredric William Brown was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. After finishing high school in 1922, he attended Hanover College and the University of Cincinnati. In 1929, he married Helen Ruth Brown. They moved to Milwaukee where their two sons were born. Brown attempted several jobs before joining the Milwaukee Allied Authors Club and started writing for trade magazines. From 1937 until 1945, he was a proofreader for the Milwaukee Journal.
In 1937, he sold his first detective
storyFredric William Brown was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. After
finishing high school in 1922, he attended Hanover College and
the University of Cincinnati. In 1929, he married Helen Ruth Brown.
They moved to Milwaukee where their two sons were born. Brown
attempted several jobs before joining the Milwaukee Allied Authors
Club and started writing for trade magazines. From 1937 until
1945, he was a proofreader for the Milwaukee Journal. In 1937,
he sold his first detective story 'Monday's Off Night'. His breakthrough
came a year later with the publication of 'The Moon for a Nickel'
in Detection Story. In the Forties, he sold hundreds of stories
to the detective and science fiction pulp magazines.
In 1947, his first novel was published which brought him fame
and money. He quit his job to become a full-time writer. He divorced
Helen and soon remarried. In 1949, the Browns moved to Mexico
where they stayed for three years. In 1952, they moved to the
Los Angeles area, but in 1954, on the advice of Brown's doctors,
they moved back to Tucson. Brown was suffering from asthma. In
1961, they went to California where Fredric wrote screenplays
and scripts. In the late Sixties, his health was declining fast
and he drank heavily. His first wife died in 1970 and Brown passed
away two years later in hospital.