Hire a Hangman; Going Wrong; Murder on the Iditarod Trail

The Detective Book Club produced volumes of three crime novels from 1942 to 1999. Originally monthly, near the end they dwindled down to just a few per year. Many famous detective and crime novelists had their early works featured in DBC editions. Often, books were published in DBC editions before, or at the same time as they were published in mass market form. A little about our authors:

Collin Wilcox: Also known as Carter Wick, Wilcox is best known as the creator of Sam McCloud, which became a television series starring Dennis Weaver. The series ran from 1970 to 1977. He also created three other detective series, with the most prolific being the Frank Hastings series, with 19 novels. Wilcox died in 1996. This is the sixteenth Frank Hastings novel.

Ruth Rendell: A rather prolific writer, Rendell created the character Chief Inspector Wexford for a 24 volume series. She also published 30 stand alone novels of mystery and crime under her own name and another fifteen under the pen name of Barbara Vine. As if 69 novels wasn't enough, Rendell also published sixteen collections of her short stories and novellas and contributed to many other anthologies as well. Rendell died in 2015.

Sue Henry: Sue Henry is an Alaskan writer and that is where most of her books are set. She has created two series of mysteries, the Jesse Arnold series of twelve novels and the Maxine and Stretch series with four. Now 80, she appears to have retired from writing as her last published work was in 2009. This is her award winning first novel in the Jesse Arnold series.