Bill Craig

Quinn Kerns had come from Miami to Key West to get away from her parents. She was underage and desperate. So when Desmond Carter offered her a job she said yes, not knowing what she was getting into. Quinn's mother followed her to Key West searching for her daughter. After she's threatened by a couple of thugs, Lara Kerns hires Marlow to find her daughter and get her out of whatever she has gotten herself into ... Yes, Bill Craig delivers another mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. His spellbinding books remind you of potato chips: you can't eat just one ... or not read another in the series.

A Key West Mystery

Lost Girl

ATLANTIS RISING: The Mission After 500 years under the waves, man is returning to the surface. The world didn't end in a blaze of nuclear weapons or terrorists weapons of mass destruction. Instead it had been destroyed by mother nature herself through an unending series of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as category 6 storms and acid rains. But mankind had survived, retreating below the waves to undersea cities. But as the power source for the domes, a geo-thermal vent is in danger of collapsing which will force them back to the surface. And while civil unrest rises in the domes, the mission to the surface discovers that they are not the only survivors...

The Mission

Atlantis Rising

Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West. Getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from where he had been before he got shot. So when he gets a new case, he's not prepared for the violence that's sure to follow. "Craig's Marlow series is an Amazon bestseller, at the top of the hardboiled private eye category," notes Shirrel Rhoades, editor of Murder In Key West. "A great read, it's as attention-getting as a fist in the face!"

Marlow: Mango Run

"If you like Perry Mason and Phillip Marlow you will like this. There is enough action to satisfy the most bloodthirsty. I hope Bill Craig has enough imagination to write a lot of these. I am a fan." - an Amazon review "You can count on Bill Craig to deliver can't-put-it-down action, this time with a series set in that end-of-the-road paradise known as Key West. His ex-NYPD cop who now must tangle with Cuban spies and gangsters as he looks for a missing woman." - a Barnes & Noble review Set in Key West, this new mystery series promises an intriguing story of murder, mayhem, and duplicity. Rick Marlow is a broken former NYPD cop who had been shot by his partner during the discovery of a dead body in an alley. Half-dead and barely recovered Marlow moves south to Key West, figuring the end of the road might mean a new beginning. Then, hired to find a missing heiress by a Key West attorney, Marlow suddenly has purpose once more. The case takes him from Key West to Miami, where big bucks, blackmail and Cuban Intelligence agents all cross his path.

Marlow: Indigo Tide: A Key West Mystery

Laura Givens

With the War effort in full swing, a string of sabotage at the local shipbuilding plants in the outer banks has President Roosevelt worried. As the FBI gets nowhere, Hardluck Hannigan and company arrive back in the U.S.A. Investigating a rumor of buried treasure guarded by a supernatural beast, Hannigan and friends find themselves facing not only Nazi Saboteurs but a legendary beast from an ancient past!

The Fantastic Adventures of Hardluck Hannigan

Hardluck Hannigan: Curse of the Kill Devil

follow Young Mike Hannigan as he arrives on the Dark Continent and immediately steps into trouble. Hannigan finds himself allied with former shipmate Gregor Shotsky, a strange Priest, and the Priest's adopted daughter in a race to stop a team of Nazis led by the evil Dr. Ragnarok in a deadly race to recover the fabled Emerald of Eternity, an Atlantean Artifact capable of destroying the world. Can they get there in time? Or will they meet and Emerald Death in the verdant jungles of The Congo?

Emerald Death

Hardluck Hannigan

Peril in the North Ships begin to mysteriously vanish from the North Sea, especially Allied ships. Even with Subs in the area for a fast response, ships continue to sink, destroyed from above. Hardluck Hannigan and his merry band are sent to investigate and discover that the Nazis are once again using the flying discs that Hannigan first encountered during the Sky-Masters affair! Hannigan is very aware of the devastating capabilities of these flying saucers and launches an expedition to the Arctic to locate and destroy the Nazi's Arctic Snowbase One once and for all...

Peril in the North

Sent deep into the Matto Grasso Region of the Amazon jungle, Michael "Hardluck" Hannigan and his friends are searching for the remains of Colonel Percy Fawcett. They are to prove or disprove the existence of the lost city of Z, a fabled Atlantean outpost. Dogged by Nazi spies, Hannigan and company journey deep into the Amazon and discover that not only does Z exist, but that it poses a threat to the entire world at large. Can Hannigan and company stop Z's plans to rule the world? Or will they simply die, vanishing into the depths of the Brazilian jungle?

River of the Sun

Bill Craig says this new series is for "the fans of the old style of action tales and stories of High-Adventure." Here, you'll meet Mike Hannigan, known to his friends and foes as "Hardluck Hannigan." From Nazis to flying saucers with death-rays, Hardluck Hannigan and Father Niles McKenzie continue their crusade against bad guys. Better than a Saturday morning serial, this new book series promise to keep you hanging on the edge of the cliff.

The Sky Masters

The Adventures of Hardluck Hannigan

"In the Golden Age of Adventure ...." announces this new novel from bestselling author Bill Craig. He says this new series is for "the fans of the old style of action tales and stories of High-Adventure. Here, you'll meet Mike Harrigan, known to his friends and foes as "Hardluck Hannigan." Traipsing through the Belgium Congo, he takes on Nazis, river pirates, even the legendary Prester John. With Bridget Ellen O'Malley and Father Niles McKenzie at his side, .45 blazing, Hardluck Hannigan pits himself against the nefarious Doctor Ragnarok in the search for the fabulous Emerald of Eternity. Better than a Saturday morning serial, this new book series keeps you hanging on the edge of the cliff.

The Spear of Goliath Back in Africa once more Hardluck Hannigan is trying to forget the loss of the two women he had loved. In a waterfront dive on the western coast of Africa, Hannigan hears a tale of a fabulous lost city deep in the jungle. But the city itself is not what catches his attention. The city is said to be the repository of the legendary Spear of Goliath. According to the local legends, the spear was carried there after Goliath's defeat at the hands of David and that it has been guarded by descendants of Goliath's people. As Nazis arrive in the small African settlement, Hannigan finds himself teaming up with the Chinese bar owner to find the Spear before the Nazis and a West African Warlord who desires the spear for his own evil purposes. Can Hardluck Hannigan and Musio reach the lost city and recover the spear before their enemies? Or will the Spear of Goliath fall into the hands of Evil?

A Hardluck Hannigan Adventure

Hardluck Hannigan: the Spear of Goliath

For the first time Hardluck Hannigan's first two adventures in one huge volume! Join Hannigan as he heads to the Dark Continent and into the Dark Heart of the Congo during the search for the legendary Emerald of Eternity, and then he takes on Nazi flying saucers and The infamous Kondor Legion in The Sky Masters!

Hardluck Hannigan Omnibus

MS Kris Pew

When their steamship back to England is sent off course and marooned, Hardluck Hannigan and his friends find themselves trapped in the mysterious 'graveyard of ships' known as the Sargasso Sea. Soon they discover that they must battle not only the elements for survival, but a renegade pirate tribe living aboard the derelict ships and a deadly menace from beneath the waves that threatens all of Humanity!

Ghosts of the Sargasso

Judy Bullard

Hardluck Hannigan: The Hand of Evil It begins with a murder of an MI6 agent near Charring Cross Hospital. Abigail Grayson and Hardluck Hannigan find themselves reunited to do battle with a dark Asian Mastermind that had bedeviled him in the past. As the Germans begin their blitz on London, Hannigan and friends must match wits with the fiendish Chi Pei, the infamous Devil Doctor who is on a mission to kill the leaders of the British Parliament! On the fog-shrouded streets of London, Hardluck Hannigan faces threat after terrifying threat to defeat the ultimate threat of the Hand of Evil!

The Hand of Evil

The Golden Scorpion After recovering the Spear of Goliath, Hardluck Hannigan and his friends get ready to head back to England. But during a stop in Egypt, Gregor is told of a fabulous statue made of gold that was lost beneath the burning sands of the Sahara. It was rumored to be a statue made for an ancient goddess in the form of her totem: A large golden scorpion. Hannigan decides that such a treasure might be worth going after; and the intrepid band sets out across the desert. Soon they discover that they are not the only ones pursuing the Golden Scorpion and whatever secrets that it might hold. Along with a band of bloodthirsty desert nomads, they are pursued by a mysterious group of Orientals and the most insidious villain Hardluck Hannigan has ever faced!

Hardluck Hannigan: the Golden Scorpion

The woman washed up on the beach, battered and beaten, clutching a small leather sack and no memory of who she was. But Jorge Leone recognized what was in the sack and knew it meant trouble was blowing into Key West. He hired Marlow to find out who the girl was and where she had come from. Because someone out there wanted her dead and wanted what she had been carrying. They weren't squeamish about killing to get what they wanted. As Marlow works the case, he finds himself being blown about in a Banana Wind as a storm of violence descends on Key West!

Marlow: Banana Wind

When Professor Santo Cortez is murdered while preparing a new Mayan exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, Det. Jack Riley and his Partner Det. Ken Alston begin to search for the killers. Teaming up with Riley's reporter girlfriend Moria Clark and Cortez's protoge Dr. Julie Carr, they track the killers from the mean streets of the Windy City to the jungles of the Yucatan Penninsula where they encounter the mastermind behind both the murder and the theft of priceless artifacts. A Man claiming to be the reincarnation of the ancient Mayan God Kulkulcan. Facing armed rebels and giant snake guardians as well as the wrath of an ancient God, Riley and company fight to make sure justice is served!

A Jack Riley Adventure

Mayan Gold

Sam Decker vows revenge against the man that murdered his fiance.

Blood Vow

When a boat explodes in the Scorpion Cay Marina with one of Sam Decker's oldest friends aboard, police chief Monica Sinclair knows that keeping Decker out of the case will be impossible. When evidence turns up incriminating the dead man in the drug trade, Sam Decker smells a rat. Then, when the widow arrives on the island and more dead bodies start turning up, Decker knows that someone is turning up the heat. Suddenly, Sam Decker has too jobs. Clearing his old friend's name and finding his killer before Decker becomes a victim himself.--From p. [4] of cover.

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