Avis, the old woman niece, left her Seattle home headed to San Francisco six months ago to find her estranged sister. In Squeeze Play, a private detective gets hired by an old lady to help her find her niece. The other eight murders are gory, and fun of mystery and thriller novels will surely love them. The first victim is found already dead, slashed with aikuchi from throat all the way to her abdomen and then stabbed at least thirty times. The setting of Macao Mayhem is Hong Kong and briefly Macao. Their senior often calls them Tonto and The Lone Ranger. The hero of this narrative is John Crown, a senior superintendent of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force and his sidekick, Chang Po. The characters are real and quite likable especially the killers and the Jo who is just a frightened alcoholic. It is an intriguing mystery, smartly crafted and creates some decent tension towards the conclusion. The plot is fast-paced even though it settles down a bit while the marginal characters, Jenny and her boyfriend become more involved in the mystery.

Even though the real motive of the kidnappers and the killer is not openly revealed, one thing for sure about Macao Mayhem is that it is one of the best mystery thrillers of the 20th century. The plot gets hotter when it happens that the mysterious man also known as Man from Macao is only less small than his crew.

The Macao Mayhem is a novel about an evil mastermind criminal orchestrating a plot in which a group of Hong Kong criminals would kidnap United States top officials and then sell them for 5 million dollars to the Chinese. Under this pseudonym, the author wrote three series of Western novels which the publisher would later brand them as “The Most Violent Westerns in Print.” The books by Gilman were famously known for their sarcastic and sardonic humor and portrayed violent content. Harknett novels have been identified to have been inspired by authors such as Peter Brandvold and Robert J. Pike, William Pine, James Russell, David Ford, Thomas Stone and Frank Chandler. He wrote books for Peter Haining and published under the pen names Jane Harman, Charles R. Terry Harknett is an English author of 200 books, mainly pulps in the crime and western genres.

The evil people by Peter Haining