Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators ... features the distinctly original Jim Sader, who works the seedy corners of Long Beach, Calif. “He wondered fleetingly ...

Hard-drinking philosopher detective Jack Laidlaw isn’t the only main character in this eponymous novel—he shares the ... navigating 1973 Glasgow’s most seedy and dangerous streets, working ...

The subject of Ron de Beaulieu’s new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld’s arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author’s ...