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Are Snakes Necessary?
Brian De Palma |
When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would
have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of
one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to be?
Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old
Fanny Cours knows her reputation and budding career are on the line. But what she doesn't realize is that her life might be as well...
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Binary
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction - and federal agent
John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.
When a government
computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together -
but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President
of the United States?
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Blood on the Mink
Robert Silverberg |
Somewhere in Philadelphia, a master engraver is turning out brilliant forgeries of U.S.
currency plates for an organized crime gang - and the government wants to put a stop to it. But how can they get
close enough to bring down the criminal enterprise from the inside?
By snatching a west coast crime boss'
right-hand man and sending a federal agent undercover in the man's place. His assignment: pose as a buyer of
counterfeit bills and try to get the engraver out. Which works fine - until he crosses paths with someone who
knows the man he replaced...
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A Bloody Business
Dylan Struzan |
In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With this act,
the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the
millions of people still eager to drink it. Men like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky
Johnson in Atlantic City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the waterfronts. But if you think you already know this story...think again,
since you've never seen it through the eyes of one of the mobsters who lived it.
Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the
United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition became law. Over the next decade, Alo
would work side by side with Lansky and Luciano as they navigated the brutal underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Alo's later career included
prison time and the ultimate Mob tribute: being immortalized as "Johnny Ola" in The Godfather, Part II.
Introduced to the 91-year-old Alo living in
retirement in Florida, Dylan Struzan based this book on more than 50 hours of recorded testimony--stories Alo had never shared, and that he forbid her to
publish until "after I'm gone." Alo died, peacefully, two months short of his 97th birthday. And now his stories--bracing and violent, full of intrigue
and betrayal, hunger and hubris--can finally be told. |
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Borderline
Lawrence Block |
On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet
MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with...
MEG - the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds...
LILY - the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by...
CASSIE - the redhead with her own private agenda and...
WEAVER - the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging!
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Brainquake
Samuel Fuller |
The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a set of rules: no personal relationships, no ties, no women…and never,
ever look inside the bag you’re carrying. Paul Page was the perfect bagman, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder. But that ended the day he saw
a beautiful Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every rule he’s lived by–even if it means he might be left holding the bag.
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Brothers Keepers
Donald E. Westlake |
What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a
new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the
unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address.
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Charlesgate Confidential
Scott Von Doviak |
A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But
while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years later, the last surviving thief gets out of jail and goes hunting for the loot,
involving some innocent college students in his dangerous plan - and thirty years after that, in the present day, the former college kids, now all
grown up, are drawn back into danger as the still-missing art tempts a deadly new generation of treasure hunters. A breathtakingly clever, twist-filled
narrative that moves from 1946 to 1988 to 2014 and back again, CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL establishes Scott Von Doviak as a storyteller of the first
order, and will leave you guessing until the very last page.
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Choke Hold
Christa Faust |
Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to escape her past -- not as a porn star, but as a
killer who took down the sex slavery ring that destroyed her life. But sometimes the past just won't stay buried.
When a former co-star is gunned down, it's up to Angel to get his son, a hotheaded MMA fighter, safely
through the unforgiving Arizona desert, shady Mexican border towns, and the seductive neon mirage of Las
Vegas...
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The Cocktail Waitress
James M. Cain |
Following her husband's death in an accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to
take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet. At the job she encounters two men who take an
interest in her, a handsome young schemer and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions
with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage...
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The Colorado Kid
Stephen King |
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of
local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified. And that's just the
beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an
impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our
compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great
storytellers presents a moving and surprising tale whose subject is nothing less than the nature of mystery itself.
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The Consummata
Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins |
Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, $75,000 may not sound like much. But it's all the money in the world to the
struggling Cuban exiles of Miami who rescued Morgan the Raider. So when it's snatched by a man the Cubans trusted, Morgan sets out to get it back.
A simple favor but as the bodies pile up -- dead men and beautiful women-- the Raider wonders what kind of Latin hell he's gotten himself into, and
just who or what is the mysterious Consummata?
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The Count of 9
Erle Stanley Gardner |
Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: how could anything be
smuggled out of a dinner party - least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun - when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the
crime they face next: AN IMPOSSIBLE MURDER...
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Cut Me In
Ed McBain |
When a Man’s Partner is Killed,
He’s Supposed to Do Something About It.
Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a
whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbert
and Blake literary agency – me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person
responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his body, the office safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was
missing...
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Double Feature
Donald E. Westlake |
In New York City, a movie critic has just murdered his girlfriend - well, one of his girlfriends (not to be confused with his wife). Will
the unlikely crime-solving partnership he forms with the investigating police detective keep him from the film noir ending he deserves?
On the opposite
coast, movie star Dawn Devayne - the hottest It Girl in Hollywood - gets a visit from a Navy sailor who says he knew her when she was just ordinary Estelle
Anlic of San Diego. Now she's a big star who's put her past behind her. But secrets have a way of not staying buried...
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Drug of Choice
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no
other, promising the ultimate escape. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers the dark secret of
Eden Island and of Advance Biosystems, the shadowy corporation underwriting it...
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Easy Death
Daniel Boyd |
’TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS… …and two robbers hired by a local crime boss manage to heist half a million dollars from an
armored car. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard coming down, the cops in hot
pursuit, and a double-crossing gambler and a murderous park ranger threatening to turn this white Christmas blood red.
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Easy Go
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a
professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he
hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it.
But can a five-man team of smugglers and
thieves uncover what the centuries have hidden? And even if they find it, can they escape with it...and with
their lives?
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Forever and a Death
Donald E. Westlake |
Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for
the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up – about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was
returned to Chinese rule – had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good
story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead – a novel he never published while he was alive.
Now, nearly a
decade after Westlake’s death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the
movie producers describing the project’s genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.
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Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence
Lawrence Block as Jill Emerson |
SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR...
...and when she walks out there's a man with her.
She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better.
On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address.
She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it. And then a chance remark gets her thinking of
the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her.
She starts writing down names. And
now she's a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list... |
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The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes
Lawrence Block |
In the depths of her blue eyes, he glimpsed... murder.
Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye
in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid
of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes...
He falls – and falls hard. Soon he’s working with her, against his
employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from her husband and put millions in her bank account. But can they do it without landing in jail? And
once he’s kindled his taste for killing...will he be able to stop at one?
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Grave Descend
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*Diver James McGregor is used to being hired to explore sunken ships. But there’s something
strange about the wreck of the luxury yacht Grave Descend. No one who was aboard tells quite the same story
about what happened. Then there’s the matter of the mysterious cargo they were carrying.
In one of the
most beautiful places on Earth, a sinister plot is about to unfold. And if McGregor’s not careful, he may find
himself in over his head.
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Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
Donald E. Westlake |
It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway
and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big
House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his
neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose...
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Joyland
Stephen King |
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the
summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carnie and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder,
the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
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Killing Quarry
Max Allan Collins |
Quarry, star of 13 previous novels, a comic book and the acclaimed Cinemax TV series, returns in an all-new assignment that takes the
hitman's hitman into uncharted territory, when he finds out that for the first time someone has taken out a hit on him. And is the mysterious killer
assigned to hit the hitman someone from Quarry's past? Maybe even a past lover...?
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The Knife Slipped
Erle Stanley Gardner |
Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped was meant to be the second book in the series, but shelved when Gardner’s publisher objected
to (among other things) Bertha Cool’s tendency to “talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people.” But this tale of adultery and corruption, of
double-crosses and triple identities—however shocking for 1939—shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and
shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists.
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The Last Stand
Mickey Spillane |
A tarnished former cop goes on a crusade to find a politician's killer and avoid the .45-caliber slug with his name on it. A pilot forced
to make an emergency landing in the desert finds himself at the center of a struggle between FBI agents, unsavory fortune hunters, and members of the local
Indian tribe to control a mysterious find that could mean wealth and power - or death. Two substantial new works filled with Spillane's muscular prose and
the gorgeous women and two-fisted action the author was famous for, topped off by an introduction from Max Allan Collins describing the history of these
lost manuscripts and his long relationship with the writer who was his mentor, his hero, and for much of the last century the bestselling author in the world.
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The Nice Guys
Charles Ardai |
Holland March is a private eye with a defective nose and a broken arm. Jackson Healy is the tough guy who put him in a cast. Not the two most
likely men to team up to hunt for a missing girl, or look into the suspicious death of a beautiful porn star, or go up against a conspiracy of the rich and powerful
that stretches from Detroit to D.C. Hell, they’re not the most likely pair to team up to do anything. But there you go. And if they somehow survive this case, they
might just find they like each other.
But let’s be honest. They probably won’t survive it.
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Odds On
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three
seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: the scheme has been
simulated in a computer, down to the last variable.
The complication: three beautiful women with
agendas of their own - and the sort of variables no computer can fathom...
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Pimp
Ken Bruen |
DEALING… PRODUCING…
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK FOR A DRUGLORD.
OR IN HOLLYWOOD.
Ruined and on the lam, former drug
kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain
femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max’s life story.
But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you… |
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Quarry
Max Allan Collins |
The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong,
Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay.
The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road
to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an
unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders -
and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter...
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Quarry's Choice
Max Allan Collins |
Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks.
But in this wide-open city – with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner – Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to
kill?
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Quarry's Climax
Max Allan Collins |
Memphis, 1975. “Raunchy” doesn’t begin to describe Max Climer’s magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video
empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to
end Max’s career permanently. Only another hit man – the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax – can keep Climer
from becoming a casualty in the Sexual Revolution.
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Quarry's Cut
Max Allan Collins |
It’s normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they’re dead bodies – and the cast and crew discover they’re trapped in a
house with a serial killer – Quarry’s got his work cut out for him.
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Quarry's Deal
Max Allan Collins |
Behind the doors of an illegal casino, will Quarry find Lady Luck or a lady killer?
As part of his plan to target
other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn’t a man at all – she’s a sloe-eyed beauty, as
dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match?
The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins,
author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin
with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract
killers. But some men aren’t made for taking orders – and when Quarry strikes off on his own, God help the man on the other side of his
nine-millimeter…
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Quarry's Ex
Max Allan Collins |
BECAUSE HOMICIDE BEGINS AT HOME
Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had
to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife
cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to
use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had
in that other one -- by expecting trouble.
What he didn't expect was ever running into his ex
again....
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Quarry in the Black
Max Allan Collins |
With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend
Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns
out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he’s working for.
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Quarry's List
Max Allan Collins |
SOMETIMES INFORMATION CAN BE THE MOST DANGEROUS WEAPON
When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in
the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a
target?
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Quarry's Vote
Max Allan Collins |
ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY
Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million dollar contract to assassinate
a presidential candidate. It’s not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences—but coming after Quarry has consequences, too.
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Scratch One
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been
carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt...Portugal...Denmark...France. In response, the United States
sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down.
But when the agent is delayed in transit,
lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he
survive long enough to prove his identity?
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The Secret Lives of Married Women
Elissa Wald |
Two identical twin sisters - one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former
libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia - are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the
men in their lives and to themselves. As one sister prepares for the thorniest trial of her career and the
other fends off ominous advances from a construction worker laboring on the house next door, both find
themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by discoveries about themselves and their lovers that shock and
disturb them.
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Seduction of the Innocent
Max Allan Collins |
It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially
the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate
hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent end of
his own - leaving his opponents in hot water.
Can Jack Starr, private eye to the funny-book industry,
and his beautiful boss Maggie unravel the secret of Dr. Frederick's gruesome demise? Or will the crackdown
come, falling like an executioner's axe...?
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Sinner Man
Lawrence Block |
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel
Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
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Snatch
Gregory McDonald |
Whether it’s a Middle East oil crisis in the 1970s or the London Blitz during WWII, world events have a way of breeding trouble on the home
front, too. That’s how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N. Ambassador, wound up kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and how Robby Burnes, orphaned
son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the snowy streets of New York City. But as Robby’s famous namesake taught us, the best laid plans don’t always
work out as intended.
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So Nude, So Dead
Ed McBain |
He’d been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a
man’s life can always get worse - as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead... and 16 ounces of pure
heroin missing. On the run from the law, desperate to prove his innocence and find a killer, Ray also faces another foe, merciless and unforgiving: his growing
craving for a fix...
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SoHo Sins
Richard Vine |
They were the New York art scene’s golden couple until Amanda Oliver was found murdered, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But
was he a continent away when she died? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth, and uncovers the secrets of Manhattan’s galleries and wild parties, a
world of beautiful girls growing up too fast and men losing their minds. But even the worst the art world can imagine will seem tame when the final sin is
revealed…
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Thieves Fall Out
Gore Vidal |
A down-on-his-luck American is hired to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo at a time when revolution is brewing and heads are about to roll.
One part Casablanca and one part torn-from-the-headlines tabloid reportage, this novel also offers a startling glimpse of Egypt in turmoil -- written over half a
century ago, but as current as the news streaming from the streets of Cairo today.
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The Triumph of the Spider Monkey
Joyce Carol Oates |
Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson
grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage,
his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence.
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The Twenty-Year Death
Ariel S. Winter |
A breathtaking first novel written in the form of three separate crime novels, each set in
a different decade and penned in the style of a different giant of the mystery genre.
1931— The body
found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man’s beautiful daughter—and to her
hot-tempered American husband.
1941— A hardboiled private eye hired to keep a movie studio’s
leading lady happy uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet.
1951— A
desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on
his trail... |
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Turn on the Heat
Erle Stanley Gardner |
Hired by a mysterious “Mr. Smith” to find a woman who vanished 21 years earlier, Donald Lam finds himself facing a sadistic cop, a
desperate showgirl, a duplicitous client, and one very dogged (and beautiful) newspaper reporter – while Bertha Cool’s attempts to cut herself in on
this lucrative opportunity land them both hip-deep in murder. . .
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Understudy for Death
Charles Willeford |
Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill
her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out - and the assignment will send him down a road of
self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.
On the 30th anniversary of the death of the
masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime is proud to present Charles Willeford's legendary
lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford's rarest titles (copies of the original
edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut.
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The Venom Business
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*As an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles
Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job bodyguarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune
shouldn't make him break a sweat.
But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed,
he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target...?
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
Lawrence Block |
Kenan Khoury’s wife went out grocery shopping and never came home. Alive, anyway. But because Kenan Khoury buys and sells drugs for a
living he can’t go to the police for help. He goes to Matthew Scudder instead -- an alcoholic ex-cop and unlicensed private eye who will stop at nothing to
bring the brutal killers to justice before another innocent woman falls beneath their knives.
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The Wrong Quarry
Max Allan Collins |
Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen,
availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out
who hired them…and then removing that problem as well.
So far he's rid of the world of nobody who would be
missed. But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader. Does the
hitman's hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights?
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Zero Cool
Michael Crichton as John Lange |
*American radiologist Peter Ross just wanted a vacation. But when he meets the beautiful
Angela Locke on a Spanish beach, he soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs
seeking a precious artifact.
From Barcelona to the rain-swept streets of Paris, from the towers of the
Alhambra to its darkest catacombs, Peter Ross is an ordinary man in desperate circumstances: racing to uncover
a secret lost for centuries, before he becomes its next victim.
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