Mac McCorkle Books

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel At the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar in the West German capital, called Mac's place. One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn't around a lot; he keeps disappearing on "business trips." McCorkle, his partner, wisely doesn't ask questions; he knows Padillo has a second job -- he's a (reluctant) US agent. But McCorkle is ready to answer a call for help from Padillo, and he joins his friend in a blind journey with no inkling of what they will encounter at the turn of each dark and dangerous corner.

A classic mystery featuring Padillo and Mac, from the award-winning author of Ah, Treachery! McCorkle returns from Germany to Washington, D.C., with a beautiful wife, intending to live a quiet life as a saloon keeper in a classy neighborhood. But when his old friend Mike padillo is stabbed, his wife is kidnapped, and various assassination plots and double agents surface, McCorkle and Padillo set off to save the day.

Wanda and her brother Walter hire McCorkle to help protect an Arab prince from the most accomplished assassin in the world, but the situation becomes dicey when Walter is murdered

In the wake of Steadfast Haynes's death, four mourners--including a Frenchwoman, a former homicide cop, a foreign legionnaire, and a spook--visit the gravesite and become victims in a strange series of murders. Reissue.