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"The Whosis Kid" by Dashiell Hammett is a gritty detective story featuring the Continental Op, a hard-boiled private investigator navigating a world of crime, deceit, and shifting loyalties. The story follows the Op as he tracks down a notorious criminal known as the Whosis Kid, a slippery figure whose identity and motives remain elusive. Set against Hammett's trademark backdrop of corruption and moral ambiguity, the tale unfolds with sharp dialogue, terse prose, and a relentless pace.

In the dark shadows of Savannah, a serial killer strikes. It's an act of sinister precision that has happened many times before - every victim an offering to a hunger that can never be sated. Catilyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes, covered in blood. But Caitlyn has no memory of the night before, when...

Tsunojima, au large des côtes japonaises. Un an après le quadruple meurtre qui a ensanglanté l’île, c’est l’endroit parfait pour la retraite annuelle du Club des amateurs de roman policier ! Ses membres vont pouvoir se consacrer à la rédaction du prochain numéro de leur revue et...

Winner of the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award. How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. Someone is going to end up dead. Most...

An organized crime boss in Kentucky believes money and power are everything until his enterprise collides with a family tragedy in this gripping noir thriller perfect for fans of S.A. Cosby and Eli Cranor. Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades...

In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz’s death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer’s notoriety—and his taste for illicit midday trysts—make the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and...

A novel in The L.A. Quartet. Internationally acclaimed author James Ellroy presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns—it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an...

“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the...

【原作　水野仙子】女流作家。読売新聞社の婦人記者として活躍。田山花袋に評価されたが、28歳の時に肋膜炎を患い郷里に帰る。30歳で病没。【朗読　大久保陽奈】甘く柔らかな声で凛とした力強い表現まで

意味を見出すな。名付けるな。謎を解くな。おまえが事件を止めたいなら。関連性不明の不審死の共通項は身体に残された「暃」の字。

【芥川龍之介】東大在学中から創作を始め「鼻」が夏目漱石から絶賛される。「羅生門」「芋粥」「藪の中」など次々と傑作を発表する。格調高い文章で人間の本質と闇を描いている。

コロナ禍の中、オリンピック開催が間近に迫る東京で、配送トラックを狙った青酸ガステロ事件が次々と起こる。さらに鉄道が爆破され、高速道路でのトンネル火災も発生。

医科大学の脳外科臨床講義初日、初老の講師は意外な課題を学生に投げかける。患者の脳にあった病変が消えた、その理由を正解できた者には試験で50点を加点するという。