Vintage

Dr. Frigo is a change of scene for acclaimed spy thriller writer Eric Ambler, moving from the European theater to an equally intriguing Caribbean political stage.Dr. Ernesto Castillo has shunned politics and shut himself off from the world since his father, a Central American leader, was assassinated years ago. In fact his cool, detached demeanor...

From the much-loved author of Whos Irish? and The Love Wife, a world-sized novel set in a small New England town.Hattie Kongthe spirited offspring of a descendant of Confucius and an American missionary to Chinahas, in her fiftieth year of living in the United States, lost both her husband and her best friend to cancer. It is an utterly devastating...

New and Selected StoriesEver since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America's finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collectionThrough the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believerswas further confirmation of his mastery: his gift for capturing the immediate...

A startlingly original first novel by this generations answer to Alice Munro (The Vancouver Sun)a bold reimagining of one of historys most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.342 BC: Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor...

The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese FalconA wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett's beloved detective, Sam Spade.It's 1921seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He's just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets...

He was a son who hadn't known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murderhis father's murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father's seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on...