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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...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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[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...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A masterfully delivered tale of an inconspicuous citizen who [finds] murder simple... The climax packs a brilliant wallop." -- Chicago Tribune Relentlessly twisting and blackly funny, this noir novel by Edgar Award winner Fredric Brown is a portrait of a seemingly upstanding print shop owner in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles who has successfully murdered his wife -- and is now feeling quite confident about his criminal skills. As victims start...
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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"In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America's mighty capital. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city in the book. The original D.C. Noir , a groundbreaking collection of new fiction by sixteen different writers, displayed the curatorial prowess...
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors. Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-pin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy readers who are sick and tired of the gendered...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When an author finds his friend murdered, he calls on hardboiled cop Jerry Burke to track down the killer In a lonely canyon high above El Paso, a ruthless millionaire and a hardline socialist live side by side. Raymond Dwight makes money mercilessly and Leslie Young hates the rich with a passion, but the men have coexisted peacefully-so far. But when Western novelist Asa Baker escapes to Young's cabin for a weekend of writing, he can sense tension in...
7) Thunder Road
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English
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"In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake. When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road, to the barren ranch lands of New Mexico, to secret facilities...
8) Charlie Dell
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Helplessly drawn to his wife's much younger sister, an engineer goes to terrible lengths for passion Charlie Dell isn't pleased when his wife, Irma, tells him that her sister is coming to live with them. But Irma is a stern woman who runs her husband's life with an iron fist-and what she says goes. At first, Dell is angry that she's forcing her seventeen-year-old sister on him, but his heart skips a beat the moment he sees Lois. She's a far cry from...
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Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"As the events of 9/11 unfold, one man eludes the mob and seeks redemption in Las Vegas: "An inventive, extravagant, high-energy thrill ride of a book." -- Irish Times It is September 11, 2001, and as chaos and terror descends on the East Coast, George Bailey, a charming but feckless opportunist, finds himself on the other side of the country, trapped in the seeming purgatory of Las Vegas. He is followed there by his boss, from whom he has stolen...
10) Berkeley noir
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Sixteen storytellers shed light on the darkness that lurks in the California city in this fun collection of crime tales. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. With stories by: Barry Gifford, Jim Nisbet, Lexi Pandell, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Mara Faye Lethem, Thomas...
12) Bronx Noir
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Akashic Books (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Fiction by Marlon James, Kevin Baker, and more: "Captures the immense diversity . . from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale" ( Publishers Weekly ). Set amid landmarks like Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo, in crowded streets or leafy enclaves, this collection of crime and suspense fiction, edited by a winner of multiple major mystery awards, showcases both an exceptional lineup of literary talent and the unique atmosphere of...
13) Once were cops
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English
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Michael O'Shea is a member of Ireland's police force, known as The Guards. He's also a sociopath who walks a knife edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shay, as he's known, has his lifelong dream come true--he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shay's dream is about to become New York's nightmare.
Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed...
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Publisher
Akashic
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Explores the dark corners of our city ... set both pre- and post-Katrina ... harrowing reading, to be sure, but it's pure page-turning pleasure, too." -- The Times-Picayune Residents of the Big Easy are proud of its unique history and character. Resourceful and resilient, they are survivors -- of natural disasters, as well as everyday tragedies. For off the beaten path, where tourists never travel, is a city that revels in scandal, sin, and seduction....
15) Buffalo Noir
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Publisher
Akashic
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Offbeat, disturbing, and sometimes darkly comical" crime stories set in upstate New York by Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, S.J. Rozan, and more ( Kirkus Reviews ). Buffalo is still the second-largest metropolis in New York State, but in recent years its designation as the Queen City has been elbowed aside by a name that's pure noir: The City of No Illusions . Presidents came from here -- and in 1901 while visiting the Pan-American Exposition,...
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English
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From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2. 3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one...
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Akashic Books (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"This entry, with its high-quality stories from such genre masters as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, outshines the typical all-original anthology." -- Publishers Weekly In Akashic Books's acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. This collection of classic stories -- the sequel to the award-winning, bestselling Los Angeles...
18) Prizzi's Family
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Series
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
When a beautiful blonde turns his head, a mob enforcer risks losing his neck Charley Partanna sits in his office, quietly rigging an election. As the chief executioner for the Prizzi family, he has taken time out of his busy schedule of cold-blooded murder to ensure that New York reelects its mayor, and that dirty money continues to flow his way. When he isn't killing snitches or stealing votes, Partanna goes to night school, but tonight, his homework...
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English
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Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig...
20) Before I wake
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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A teenage girl and her wicked stepmother battle to the death for a hefty inheritance April Haddon has spent years waiting to hate her stepmother. Ever since her father wrote to tell her that he had married a woman named Florence, April has stockpiled her loathing in preparation for the day when they would finally meet. And when they do, she is not disappointed. April's father is dead, and she has returned to Midhampton to claim her inheritance....
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