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Author : Otto Penzler,James Ellroy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547577449
A treasure trove of a hundred years' worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy
Author : Various
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451205964
Thirty-two stories of stunning ingenuity. Thirty-two writers of legendary genius. One hundred years of crime fiction in a one-of-a-kind collection.
Author : Dennis Lehane,George Pelecanos,Susan Straight
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617751998
“All the heavy hitters, from Michael Connelly in Los Angeles to Joyce Carol Oates in suburban New Jersey . . . an important anthology.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Features Dennis Lehane’s story “Animal Rescue,” the inspiration for the movie The Drop starring Tom Hardy. Launched with the summer 2004 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, the groundbreaking Akashic Noir series now includes over sixty volumes and counting. The stories in USA Noir “represent the best of the U.S.-based anthologies, and the list of contributors include virtually anyone who’s made the best-seller list with a work of crime fiction in the last decade . . . a must-have anthology” (Booklist, starred review). Featuring stories by: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, Jeffery Deaver, Maggie Estep, Bayo Ojikutu, Tim McLoughlin, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Megan Abbott, Elyssa East, James W. Hall, J. Malcolm Garcia, Julie Smith, Joseph Bruchac, Pir Rothenberg, Luis Alberto Urrea, Domenic Stansberry, John O’Brien, S.J. Rozan, Asali Solomon, William Kent Krueger, Tim Broderick, Bharti Kirchner, Karen Karbo, and Lisa Sandlin. One of Zoom Street Magazine’s Favorite Books of 2014 One of “100 Best Books for Readers Young and Old,” HispanicBusiness.com “Perhaps the single most impressive feature of the collection is its range of voices, from Joyce Carol Oates’ faux innocent young family to Megan Abbott’s impressionable high school kids to the chorus of peremptory voices S.J. Rozan plants in a haunted thief’s head. Eat your heart out, Walt Whitman: These are the folks who hear America singing, and moaning and screaming.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Steve Fisher,Keith Alan Deutsch
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049981402
In military school, a teenager holds a secret that could save a young man from the gallows Clark’s is the finest military institution on the West Coast, but pay them enough and they’ll take anybody. That’s how Martin Thorpe ended up there, a fourteen-year-old boy with a habit of getting thrown out of boarding schools. Too smart for his own good, Thorpe is currently obsessed with the trial of Tommy Smith—a young man who has just been sentenced to hang for murdering his father. Thorpe has been dating Tommy’s sister, was at the house the night of the murder, and may know something that could save Tommy’s life. The detective investigating the case has questions for Thorpe. Why were Tommy and his father fighting that night? What did Thorpe hear the old man say before he was killed? And why does Thorpe have such a blood-stained permanent record? In this chilling Black Mask classic, nothing is more terrifying than what lurks at the back of the mind of Martin Thorpe. This ebook features an introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch.
Author : John Buntin
Publisher : Crown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307352088
Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men—one L.A.’ s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief—each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.
Author : C. J. Box,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781328636102
A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
Author : Louise Penny,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 9780544949096
An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise Penny.
Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544302228
A treasury of crime, mystery and murder tales from America's 19th century includes Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as well as selections by such genre masters as Jack London, Washington Irving and Mark Twain. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Tony Hillerman,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618012710
In this essential distillation of American suspense, 100 years worth of peerless tales are collected into a volume where giants of the genre abound: Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, and Sara Paretsky.
Author : Ki Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Private investigators
ISBN : 1937819000
It's 1948. We're on Staten Island where no one who is anyone would ever set foot. We're with Sam Russo, a neglected graduate of the Staten Island Home for Children. Self-named and self-styled, Russo's not long back from World War II where his unit fought on the Pacific Front with the very last of America's mounted troops. A dreamer with the gift of gab, Russo is now a young private eye who'd like to follow in the hard-boiled footsteps of Bogart's Philip Marlowe or Bogart's Sam Spade-if only he was hard-boiled. In this, his first serious case, it's a dream come true. Sam has two loves: racehorses and books. Now he's up to his hocks in the murders of three promising young jockeys in Saratoga Springs at America's oldest race track. The police want it all shoved under the carpet, the track wants three deaths to be three strange accidents, Sam Russo wants to prove he's a real Private Eye. Race horses, a gorgeous sassy dame, the Season at Saratoga, what more could a PI want? To survive it.
Author : Catherine Corman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : 8881587246
"Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City comprises photographs of all the ominous, forbidding locations in Los Angeles Chandler wrote about in his novels. These places - from Malibu Pier to the Hollywood Sign, from Union Station to the Beverly Hills Hotel, from MGM Studies to Musso & Frank's Grill - form the literary geography of his imagination." "Chandler was drawn to the Edward Hopper-like loneliness of the city: the separate existences that never, finally, merge. In these photographs, Catherine Corman has given us, as Jonathan Lethem writes in his preface, a "supremely evocative catalogue of haunted places ... these streets and buildings we have erected in order to give order to our solitudes.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Robert Polito
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106014739699
This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination, the novels in this volume explore themes of crime, guilt, deception, obsessive passion, murder, and the disintegrating psyche. With visionary and often subversive force, they create a dark and violent mythology out of the most commonplace elements of modern life. The raw power of their vernacular style has profoundly influenced contemporary American culture and writing. Far from formulaic, they are ambitious works which bend the rules of genre fiction to their often experimental purposes.
Author : Elizabeth George
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544527973
The Anthony Award–winning author presents a “highly readable” anthology featuring mysteries by Stephen King, Megan Abbott, Elmore Leonard and more (Publishers Weekly). “What you’ll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeuppance; stories that utilize superb point of view; stories that plumb one particular and unfortunate attribute of a character,” promises guest editor Elizabeth George in her introduction. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 is a feast of both literary crime and hard-boiled detection, featuring a seemingly innocent murderer, a drug dealer in love, a drunken prank gone terribly wrong, and plenty of other surprising twists and turns. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 includes entries by Steve Almond, Megan Abbott, Matt Bell, Lydia Fitzpatrick, Tom Franklin, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others. “There isn’t enough Xanax in anyone’s medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these 20 skillful stories will unleash on a worried world.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : John Sandford,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544949089
Otto Penzler and a high-profile guest editor select the best mystery writing of the year.
Author : James Patterson,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 9780544638747
Mega best-selling mystery and thriller novelist James Patterson edits a collection of the best mystery writing.