Classical vs. Hardboiled Detective Fiction
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A second edition hardcover of the Eisner Award winner! Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse. Unit Four is the ultimate robot killing machine and the last hope of the future's enslaved... [Read More]
Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse. Unit Four is the ultimate robot killing machine - and the last hope of the future's enslaved mechanical servants. And they're all the same psychot... [Read More]
Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly un... [Read More]
Since the late 1970s, a subgenre of crime fiction, written by women and featuring a professional woman investigator, has exploded on the popular fiction market. Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones focus on this recent proliferation of women writers of detective fiction, providing the first book-length study of the historical and societal changes t... [Read More]
"FRIEND, YOU'RE TALKING TO A GUY WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND THE POLICE AT HIS BACK..." Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, $75,000 may not sound like much. But it's all the money in the world to the struggling Cuban exiles of Miami who rescued Morgan the Raider. So when it's snatched by a man the Cubans trusted,... [Read More]
The past and the present collide with stunning results in the tenth installment of the Reed Ferguson mystery series.When Brad Webb asks me to look into the decades-old murder of his grandfather, Dewey Webb, I don't see much promise of solving the case. Dewey was a Denver-based private detective who died mysteriously in 1955, but the police never fo... [Read More]
Geof Darrow won the Eisner Award for Best Team with Frank Miller for their work. Rolling Stone described it as "intricate, kinetic, and thoroughly outrageous!" Now you can experience Geof's art like never before. More than 40% bigger than the original publication and without color or word balloons, it's totally amazing! It's totally mind-blowing! I... [Read More]
#1 Hardboiled Mystery#1 Women Sleuths#1 Police ProceduralMary Cooper is a private investigator in Los Angeles with a penchant for solving crimes and extreme sarcasm. In DEATH BY SARCASM, Mary's uncle, a stand-up comedian, is brutally murdered. When Mary begins to investigate, she becomes the target of a sadistic killer who is bent on executing a ... [Read More]
‘Cracks’ is about a world which doesn’t really change. It revolves around a portrait depicting Hitler as a clown drawn roughly a hundred years before his birth. Some see this Jewish work of art as prophetic, others as symbolic, but the Church strongly condemns it. It rouses passionate reactions worldwide. During the Second World War Hitler cr... [Read More]
HER WEALTHY STEPFATHER WAS DYING – BUT NOT QUICKLY ENOUGH What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that’s the life she was trapped in – until she met Jack. Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery and walk away with a suitcase full of cash. But the... [Read More]
When a Man’s Partner is Killed,He’s Supposed to Do Something About It. Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency – me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had... [Read More]
THEIR VACATION IN PARADISE BECAME A DESCENT INTO HELL Their marriage on the rocks, James and Cora Bevan flew to Jamaica for a last chance at patching things up. But in the slums of Kingston James found himself fighting for his life – while Cora found her own path to destruction, in the arms of another man. Available for the first time in more tha... [Read More]
This special box set includes three gritty crime novels from Charles Alverson: Goodey's Last Stand, Not Sleeping Just Dead and Fighting Back. For fans of John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane and Elmore Leonard.Goodey's Last Stand (Joe Goodey #1) - Hailed as “...the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler ... [Read More]
Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst was bad enough to get him fired - but the best landed him a new job, penning lurid articles for Real Detective magazine, one of the last of the true-crime pulps. Only the case they've got him working on, involving a beauty pageant contestant found d... [Read More]
What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? "Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing and sex," said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philop Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett's style: "... [Read More]
A murdered police officer. The thin blue line. One PI will take on the system to get justice.For someone who never got along well with the cops, C.T. Ferguson finds himself in a good place.His relationship with the Baltimore police is as solid as it's been. He and his detective cousin Rich are almost friends.Then the news comes in: Officer down.The... [Read More]
Did you know that James Rollins Recommends...The Harbinger Collection inclduing, Plain Jane: Brunettes Beware, a Top 10 bestseller in both Hard-Boiled Mysteries and Police Procedurals.Let's see why..."Wickedly macabre and blisteringly paced, PLAIN JANE marks the debut of a thriller for the new millennium. Brash, funny, terrifying,... [Read More]
Dan Reno has a serious dislike for violent criminals. Though he wouldn't concede this point, Reno probably lost any chance at a normal life after his father was killed by a point-blank shotgun blast. At thirteen years old, Reno was left to draw conclusions on a world that paroled society’s worst criminals and set them free to maim and kill.The Da... [Read More]
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