"It's been a rainy week in LA, and among the tasks Mendoza and company face are tracing a couple who may have murdered their unwanted newborn infant, and investigating a possible case of husband-beating. There's a string of hit-and-run accidents in which the offending vehicle is a Model A Ford, and the peculiar case of a mugger who's as greedy for his victims' shoes as for their cash. The most puzzling crime of all is the murder of a respectable middle-aged woman from Indianapolis, because no one seems to know why she was in LA or who she was with when she died. Could the killer have been an old college flame? He's the best available candidate, but Mendoza's not so sure."
001983 
Price: 2.95 USD

"Murder by the Tale is the perfect short-story collection for Dell Shannon’s thousands of fans, because it gives them eight never-before-published stories featuring the popular Lieutenant Luis Mendoza of the Los Angeles Police Department as well as six fine non-series tales. We see the full range of Dell Shannon’s diabolical talent as a writer of crime fiction—from the nitty-gritty realism of the Mendoza stories to creepy supernaturalism."
002569 
Price: 6.95 USD