Джеймс Холдинг — библиография

Несчастный случай произошел на автомагистрали 78, буквально перед зданием муниципалитета, и расследование этого дела подлежало юрисдикции местной полиции. Ответственным был назначен лейтенант Рэнделл. Однако без помощи официантки Сары Бенсон ему никогда бы не удалось найти виновного.

В своей квартире убит шантажист Клиффорд, а в его стенном сейфе найден список его жертв. И теперь, разумеется, все они под подозрением инспектора Грейвса. Но только у одного нет алиби на день совершения убийства. Хватит ли этого для предъявления обвинения или же полицейскому придётся достать козырь из кармана?

Алекс работает в банке и однажды ему сообщают, что его в услугах больше не нуждаются. Парень разочарован и уже начинает думать, как бы ему ограбить банк. И в этот момент в хранилище для сбережений приходит самая богатая в городе старушенция…

Ramon Ribero, Minister of Justice, is (voluntarily) kidnapped by the Society of the Parrot, a revolutionary organization that he has helped fund against his own government. The government ransoms for his release, but refuses to set free their own political prisoners when threatened with Ramon's death.

A middle-aged American couple is in the midst of a year-long tour of Europe when they come across a man in Zurich who knows somebody in Naples who might be able to help them get something they've always wanted but couldn't obtain…not legally, anyway.

When a less-than-honest collector decides to add a valuable Mochica jug to his collection, he consults Professor de la Vega with a request to merely photograph it. When the professor directs him to the who sold it on the black market, he arranges to purchase it—and that's where the trouble starts, because he still needs to get it back to the United States!

A illegal Chinese immigrant attempting to sneak across the Canadian border into the United States has a secret…

Larry needs to make money—fast—in order to fund his honeymoon. A full, traditional honeymoon is the only way Marsha will marry him. So Larry decides to rob his boss…

A fsherman with a fondness for self-made aphorisms, Fong Kam Lee arrives in Hong Kong to fish lucratively, but is convinced by a syndicate representative that he should instead smuggle luxury goods…

Mr. Cardone, a career thief, has managed to avoid being caught in all his years of schemes and robberies. Upon visiting India for a vacation, he is approached by Mirajkar Dass, a big Hindu man, who proposes the heist of a valuable jewel-encrusted tapestry…

No need to worry if this bank is robbed—they have an external alarm that rings in a hat shop nearby. Crooks aren't clever enough to figure out stuff like this. Are they?

A pair of art experts attempt to scam a seller of a piece of valuable pop-art by persuading him that it's only a copy.

Officer Harper takes a pair of reports of leopard sightings in Mombasa and manages to track the beast to a baobob grove off the coast. Then he hatches a scheme for a promotion, with the help of the beast…

Hitman (and used car dealer) Pete Borelli is promised a Van Gogh for a mercy-killing job on an in-law. But the man he has to kill has good reason to hate him…

A mentally ill woman waits outside a school to pick up a child with a passing resemblance to her daughter. After following a likely candidate, she persuades the girl to get in her car – and that's where things really go wrong.

A policeman tasked with keeping order in a seedy section of town learns he's to have a partner. They get along famously, and as the months pass they seem like a proper crime-fighting duo. Then one night they encounter the policeman's old high school rival-turned-criminal in the process of escaping a robbery…

When the Photographer refuses to take an assignment – killing the nephew of General Da Silva, junta member – the Corporation finds a replacement…one not quite up to the job.

In the February 24, 1982 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the editor offered the following challenge to the Author: «A plot idea for the next Photographer story: when Manuel looks at the name and address on the slip of paper handed to him by Rodolfo, he reads his own name and address. He has been given the assignment to nullify himself! How does the Photographer give positive proof to the Big Ones (no trick photo) of his own death, collect his murderer’s fee, and still remain alive to tell the tale?» James Holding immediately took up the awe-inspiring challenge and the following story is the result—an unforgettable chapter in the…

It seemed a pity to Paolo that romance in Venice should be at the mercy of racketeers. So he turned their space-work upside down… A chilling suspense novelet!