“Crime is really only business carried on by other means.” First edition USA 1976.

A detective’s job is brutalizing but none of it prepared Kevin Reedy for the “bigger twist, a sharper irony, a deeper terror.” First edition USA 1987.

Is it greed or love, New Age whimsy or darker forces? We are what we believe as the inhuman comedy continues. First edition France 2000.

Death is the class act in a Boston club and as irresistible to the rich and powerful as it was in the days of the Coliseum. But the payback for America’s political elite is goes beyond their worst nightmares.  First edition France 1990.

The story of a politician’s secret: Nigel - precursor of Hannibal Lector - clever, charming, confined and deadly. First edition USA 1978.

The Bric-a-Brac Man

La Nuit du Jugement (Doomsnight)

Magique Micmac (Glamourdoom)

Can of Worms

Keepers
Book cover of The Bric-a-Brac Man by Russell H. Greenan, first edition 1976 illustration Stan Zagorowski Book cover of Keepers by Russell H. Greenan, first edition 1978Book cover of Glamour Doom (Magique MicMac) by Russell H. Greenan, French edition 2002Book cover of Can of Worms by Russell H. Greenan Bantam paperback illustrated by Stephen Hall 1987 Book cover of Dooms Night (La Nuit du Jugement) by Russell H. Greenan, French edition 1990 illustration by Henri Galeron Text Box: The books of Russell H. Greenan

The details “grisly”, the people “lunatic”, the results, “magnetic”.

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This is the original 1968 version of this modern classic. The latest edition appears in Random House’s Modern Library as a 20th Century Rediscovery introduced by Jonathan Letham.

“One is going to look hard in contemporary mystery fiction before unearthing a figure of such concentrated evil.” First edition USA 1972.

“...a specimen of cheerful gothica...The reader slips into Algernon’s world… as comfortably as into an old straitjacket.” First edition USA 1973

“Greenan taps the wellsprings of our avarice, cynicism and our interest in committing the perfect crime.” First edition USA 1975.

This “contemporary tale of horror” was first published in 1970 in the USA, but did not appear with its original title of Nightmare in Colour until 1971 in the UK.

It Happened in Boston?

Heart of Gold

The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton

The Queen of America

Nightmare
Original book cover It Happened in Boston? by Russell H. Greenan 1968Book cover of Queen of America by Russell H. Greenan, first edition 1972 designed by Ken BrarenBook cover of The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton by Russell H. Greenan, first edition 1973 design by Paul BaconBook cover of Nightmare by Russell H. Greenan, first edition 1970 Book cover of Heart of Gold by Russell H. Greenan, first edition 1975 illustration by Paul Bacon

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