Be Buried in the Rain; Singapore; Gideon's Law

The Detective Book Club produced volumes of three crime novels from 1942 to 1999. Originally monthly, near the end they dwindled down to just a few per year. Many famous detective and crime novelists had their early works featured in DBC editions. Often, books were published in DBC editions before, or at the same time as they were published in mass market form. A little about our authors:

Barbara Michaels: This is another pseudonym used by Barbara Mertz, better known as Elizabeth Peters. As Michaels, she is known for Gothic and supernatural thrillers. Mertz wrote 29 novels as Michaels, 39 as Peters, and one nonfiction book under her real name. Mertz died in 2013.

John Ball: Ball was best known for writing a series featuring Virgil Tibbs, beginning with "In the Heat of the Night". There were seven novels in that series, plus three more featuring Jack Tallon, and nine stand-alone novels. Ball also worked as a broadcaster, daily columnist, science writer, and music critic. Ball died in 1988. Singapore is the seventh and final Virgil Tibbs novel.

William Vivian Butler: After John Creasy died in 1973, Butler took up the J. J. Marric pen name to continue the George Gideon series. He managed to add five more novels to the Gideon world before he, too, died, in 1987. Gideon's Law is Butler's second and Gideon's 23rd in the series.