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The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years...and these two will test his agency's resources. The first involves a woman whose husband is accidentally killed in a remote cabin in the Sierras. The wife isn't buying that he was alone, and she's determined to uncover his secret and get closure...in spite of any potential heartbreak. Nameless' next case is a missing person - a person who was agoraphobic and never left the house.

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring...

Sunny Randall is hired to investigate the disappearance of an energy drink company’s CEO, Dylan. As she gets closer to finding Dylan, she learns not only of his bad behaviour toward numerous women, but of his bad behaviour within the business world – and his energy drink that, despite its...

The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film was based. 'Beautiful ... The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one' NEW YORK TIMES Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has...

Früher Morgen. Privatdetektiv Briggs erhält überraschenden Besuch. Sein Freund Otis teilt ihm mit, dass er in einen Raub verwickelt sei und jetzt in großen Schwierigkeiten stecke. Briggs ist wenig begeistert, sagt aber dennoch seine Hilfe zu. Er begibt sich auf die Straße und kümmert sich um den Wagen seines Freundes. Als er in seine Wohnung zurückkehrt, ist Otis tot – erschossen.

A LETHAL STORM. THE MOST DEADLY PRISON. WHO WILL SURVIVE THE NIGHT? Jack Constantine - a former cop who killed one of his wife's murderers in an act of vengeance - is serving his time in Ravenhill penitentiary, a notorious 'supermax' home to the most dangerous convicts in the country. When an...

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled "Hillikers," read by Stephen Hoye. On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia–and so begins the greatest manhunt in...

The Continental Detective Agency's Operative is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town "Poisonville," and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, floozies, bootleggers, and hit men are all in Dashiell Hammett's first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective.

Sam Spade, a street-wise private detective working the streets of San Francisco, takes a job from a gorgeous but desperate woman and soon finds himself wrapped up in a shady conspiracy to acquire a one-of-a-kind, priceless purloined artifact—The Maltese Falcon. Full of twists and turns, questions and answers that create more questions, rabbit trails and red herrings, The Maltese Falcon is the quintessential hardboiled detective story.

Bill O'Mallow ist ein heruntergekommener Privatdetektiv, der sich gerade so mit „leichten Fällen" wie Ehebruch und Versicherungsbetrug über Wasser hält. Seine dunkle Familienvergangenheit macht ihn nicht gerade zum Liebling der Chicagoer Polizei. Scheinbar zufällig gerät Bill bei der Beschattung eines heimlichen Liebespaars in eine brisante politische Affäre, als es plötzlich zu einem blutigen Doppelmord kommt.

Privatdetektiv Paul Tyler erholt sich noch von seinem letzten Besuch in der Kitty-Bar, als die völlig aufgelöste Alison Blackwell in sein Büro stürmt. Die junge Frau ist verzweifelt, da die Polizei ihren Bruder Nathaniel festgenommen hat. Nathaniel Blackwell wird vorgeworfen, versucht zu haben, seine frisch angetraute Frau Pearl Blackwell zu töten. Alison Blackwell ist sich jedoch sicher, dass ihr Bruder nicht der Täter ist.

Robin Greaves is having a very bad day. When compromising photographs surface, revenge is on his mind, but the robbery meant to fix everything goes catastrophically wrong. Now he’s on the run. The police are closing in. Two private detectives are circling for their own grubby reasons. And somewhere in the chaos, a ruthless killer has decided Robin needs to die.

Quando Anaïs Dumont è scomparsa nel nulla, tutti i sospetti si sono concentrati su suo marito, il grande scrittore Curzio Melis. E anche quando la Procura ha archiviato l’indagine, per l’opinione pubblica Melis è rimasto un colpevole che la giustizia non è riuscita a condannare. Mesi dopo, però, sua figlia Katia torna a Rocca Tirrenica per vendere la casa delle vacanze e, rimettendo ordine tra i beni dissequestrati, trova qualcosa che potrebbe collegare la scomparsa di Anì alla storia di un’altra donna, Nadia.

Irish newsreader Isolde Malone has a face many would recognise; in fact, she can’t walk through the streets of Dublin without bumping into a hoard of fans, all of whom want their picture taken with the darling of broadcast journalism. She’s living a dream life and has never been happier. Until the night everything changes.

A man, barely alive and beaten within an inch of his life, collapses at Michael Tallon's door. He dies before Tallon has a chance to learn anything from him. The only clue? A crumpled piece of paper, covered in the dead man's blood, with two words: Operation Reacher. Intrigued, Tallon searches his memory and soon realizes he knew the man. A former soldier. His investigation leads him to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where it's clear the people responsible for his friend's death want the case to go away, and Tallon with it. Forever.

"Un esprit de la forêt. Voilà ce qu'elle avait vu. Elle le répéterait, encore et encore, à tous ceux qui l'interrogeaient, au père de Lucy, à la police, aux habitants de la réserve. Quand on lui demandait, avec douceur, puis d'une voix de plus en plus tendue, pressante, s'il ne s'agissait pas plutôt de Lucy."

San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay". In this superb collection, virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of SF’s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography for a dark landscape. From inner city boroughs to the outlands, each contributor offers an original story based in a distinct neighborhood.

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies. This collection, with voices of French and English writers, visits many neighborhoods and combines them into something that is, if not totally coherent, at least as coherent as the beautiful mess that is Montreal....

It has been almost 10 years since Matthias graduated from the elite Blackburne School, where his roommate and best friend, Fritz, fled into the woods, never to be heard from again, in the middle of their senior year. Fritz vanished just after an argument over Matthias' breaking of the school's honor code, and Matthias has long been haunted by the idea that his betrayal led to his friend's disappearance. When he is offered the opportunity to return to Blackburne as an English teacher, he sees it as a chance to put his life back together.