William Harrington, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-312-17648-8
After he becomes the scapegoat for an Argentinian military failure, Admiral Betancourt shoots himself, his daughter, and his son's fiancee. Bereft and without a country, his son David becomes a terrorist-for-hire, specializing in blowing up...
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William Harrington, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-086-3
Cosima Bernardin, poor-little-rich-girl lawyer and daughter of one of the country's richest bankers, is a junior partner in a prominent New York law office. But she's judged to be too pushy, and the small-minded senior members of the firm try to...
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William Harrington, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-55611-313-0
A master of espionage alphabet soup, Harrington ( The Cromwell File ) dishes up not just the CIA, KGB, MI5 and M16 but the BND, DGSE, UB, GIGN and HVA. And others. The story revolves around the KGB's new way of fighting in the shadows as it tries...
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William Harrington, Author Forge $21.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-312-85816-2
Having solved the murder of JFK (The Grassy Knoll) and the Tate-LaBianca killings (The Helter Skelter Murders), Lt. Columbo now digs into the mysterious disappearance of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa. As in the previous volumes, it's a present-day
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William Harrington, Author Forge $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-85536-9
By closely following the formula of the winning TV series, this first Columbo book in hardcover is itself a winner. As in the series, the puzzle here is less about who commits the crime than how Columbo solves it. Powerful TV talk-show host Paul...
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William Harrington, Author Dutton Books $20.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55611-393-2
Most readers will be charmed by narrator Bill McIntyre right from the opening pages of this otherwise unseductive novel about the murder trial of a famed New York socialite in a small Ohio town. McIntyre, 62, is the trial's judge, a welcome change...
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William Harrington, Author Forge $19.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-312-85537-6
The second hard-copy appearance of TV's scruffy Lieutenant Columbo is a wickedly successful mystery that's based on a Manson Family copycat killing and includes Charles Manson wannabes and a few of his aging followers. Twenty-five years after the...
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William Harrington, Author Forge $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-86161-2
Harrington's fifth Columbo mystery (following The Game Show Killer) sets the LAPD homicide lieutenant the task of unmasking the murderer who slew Gunnar Svan, film director, philanderer, embezzler. Following the pattern of the long-running TV series,
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William Harrington, Author Forge $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86178-0
Everyman's detective is just as dogged as ever in his pursuit of justice. Grant Kellogg, the most successful defense attorney in L.A., comes to the annoying realization that a million dollars doesn't go as far as it used to. In fact, after his last...
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William Harrington, Author Forge $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86027-1
It surely seems easy, but Harrington's seamless re-creation and updating of the canny, idiosyncratic mindset and verbal tics of actor Peter Falk's famous rumpled TV detective is doubtless a much tougher trick than it appears. The major plot here...
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