In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...

An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.

When pyschopath Max Cady is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence, his single purpose in life is to destroy his lawyer Sam Bowden. He menaces Bowden's family and the lawyer must resort to unorthodox measures to get rid of Cady.

Philip Marlowe is hired by a retired general to find out who has been blackmailing his daughters. Marlowe's search leads him through the London underworld to Eddie Mars, gang boss and nightclub owner.

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes to Paris to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Second in the renowned Marseilles trilogy following Total Chaos. This second novel in Izzo's acclaimed Marseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to the author's beloved city, in all its color and complexity. Fabio Montale is an unwitting hero in this city of melancholy beauty. Montale has left a police force marred by corruption, xenophobia, and greed. But getting out is not going to be so easy. When his cousin's son goes missing, Montale is dragged...

Flawless ... beyond perfection. New York Magazine "An astonishingly well-written literary novel that just happened to be about (or roundabout) a crime." Barry Gifford " Black Wings Has My Angel is an indisputable noir classic ! Elliott Chaze was a fine prose stylist, witty, insightful, nostalgic, and irreverent, and a first-class storyteller." Bill Pronzini An escaped convict encounters an enterprising prostitute at the start of this hard-boiled...

Legendary author Thomas Pynchon, winner of the National Book Award for his classic Gravity's Rainbow, applies his inimitable style to the mystery novel. As the marijuana haze of the free-love 1960s begins to fade, Doc Sportello drifts in and out of awareness. He hasn't seen his girlfriend in a long time. Then one day she shows up and rattles off a fantastic story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer, and Doc can't help but get drawn...

[An] accomplished new novel that confirms the promise of Nunn's first book, Tapping the Source ... Nunn writes with a keen portentousness about the warped people in this wasteland, creating what might be described as a western gothic. His examination of cultish thought is respectful, intriguing, and funny, in a narrative that never loses dramatic momentum. -- Publishers Weekly Lay preacher Obadiah Wheeler is responsible for conducting a group of missionaries...