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| Set in a small New Mexico town, this tale begins when a wealthy book collector is murdered. It’s up to the town police chief, a former bookseller, to solve the crime and catch the crook. Against the backdrop of a heckling book club made up of hilario...more | |
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| The first book in the Harvey Blissberg series features the former Boston Red Sox player who plays for an affiliated team in Rhode Island, the Providence Jewels. When his buddy and teammate, the Jewels’ relief pitcher Rudy Farth, is found murdered in...more | |
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| The first book featuring Inspector Cockrill, this Golden Age mystery was first published in 1941. Against the backdrop of WWII, a group of friends have gathered in a country manor house, the Pideonsford Estate. But perhaps some friendships aren’t all...more | |
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| This holiday-themed mystery features the unusual and intelligent hero, Gregor Demarkian. Although he has retired from the FBI, Gregor continues to solve cases that interest him. In A Great Day for the Deadly, a young nun is murdered in very puzzling...more | |
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| Dark, yet poetic with hilarious dialogue, this noir novel is an inspired collaboration of two outstanding crime writers. Told from the perspective of two childhood friends who cross into the underbelly of the criminal world, Bruen tackles the mind of...more | |
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| The Book of Ghosts is a story about the power of memories and lies. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Jacob Weisen, an elderly man who settled in America after surviving the Second World War. To earn asylum, he told a story about a book –...more | |
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| Stephen Solomita (David Cray) is a New York author of hard-boiled crime fiction and legal thrillers. He has a great ear for sharp and clever urban dialogue, and he is at the top of his game in Bad Lawyer. Sid was one of Manhattan’s top defense attorn...more | |
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| Lester Dent is most famous for his Doc Savage stories written under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson. But Dead at the Take-Off, written under his own name, shows why he was one of the most popular pulp writers of his era. Air travel was very different i...more | |
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| Ellery Queen, the master of the Golden Age mystery, is one of the most important and influential contributors to the mystery genre. The Chinese Orange Mystery is a prime example of the cleverness of the two geniuses behind the pseudonymous Ellery Que...more | |
“Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and my longtime working understanding and definition of it, noir stories are bleak, existential, alienated, pessimistic tales about losers--people who are so morally challenged that they cannot help but bring about their own ruin.”
― Otto Penzler, The Best American Noir of the Century
― Otto Penzler, The Best American Noir of the Century
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