A Taste for Cognac
Dell Publishing Company, Inc. Mass Market PaperBack. Minor crease on cover. More
Mystery & Crime
Nightmare Town: Stories
Vintage Books USA, September 2000. Trade Paperback. "Hammett's pioneering hard-boiled style has been much imitated, but the original--packs a wallop."--The New Yorker Here are twenty long-unavailable stories by the master who brought us The Maltese Falcon. Laconic coppers, lowlifes, and mysterious women double- and triple-cross their colleagues with practiced nonchalance..... More
The Day of the Dead: The Autumn of Commissario Ricciardi
Europa Editions, March 2014. Trade Paperback. The fourth Commissario Ricciardi historical mystery--following Everyone in Their Place--is "a superb novel for fans of Italian noir" (Library Journal, starred review). Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final moments in the lives of those who have suffered violent deaths. It..... More
Everyone in Their Place: The Summer of Commissario Ricciardi
Europa Editions, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Third in "a superb historical series set in Fascist Italy . . . and featuring one of the most melancholy detectives in European noir crime fiction" (The New York Times Book Review). Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in..... More
Viper: A Commissario Ricciardi Mystery
Europa Editions, March 2015. Trade Paperback. Commissario Ricciardi, "one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction," returns in this historical mystery by the author of By My Hand (The Daily Beast). It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town..... More
The Drop
William Morrow Paperbacks, August 2014. Trade Paperback. Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith--the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis..... More
God Save the Mark
St. Martins Press-3pl, September 2000. Trade Paperback. * mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc.; a sucker.-Dictionary of American Slang, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1960 That's the long definition of a mark. But there's a shorter one. It goes..... More
Maigret Afraid
Harvest/HBJ, 1983. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Maigret and the Apparition (Harvest/HBJ Book)
Harvest Books, 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. The near fatal shooting of a policeman takes Maigret into the art world-and Madame Maigret helps her husband solve the case. Translated by Margaret Duff. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. More
Blood Curse: The Springtime of Commissario Ricciardi (Commissario Ricciardi 2)
Europa Editions, May 2013. Trade Paperback. The second historical mystery featuring Commissario Ricciardi, "one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction" (The Daily Beast). Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift..... More
The Crocodile
Europa Editions, July 2013. Trade Paperback. The author of the Commissario Ricciardi series "manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The chaotic, shadowy city of Naples proves the perfect hunting ground for a killer dubbed..... More
I Will Have Vengeance
Europa Editions, December 2012. Trade Paperback. Commissario Ricciardi has visions. He sees the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most successful homicide detectives on the Naples police front. But the..... More
Past Crimes: A Van Shaw Novel
William Morrow & Company, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. The Anthony, Macavity, and Strand Critics award-winning debut from Glen Erik Hamilton When his estranged grandfather is shot and left for dead, an Army Ranger must plunge into the criminal underworld of his youth to find a murderer and uncover a...... More
Critique of Criminal Reason
Faber and Faber, July 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Hollow Man
Harper Paperbacks, October 2012. Trade Paperback. "A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London, and a beguiling bastard of a hero--what a recipe for a great read."--Val McDermid, author of The Mermaids Singing Describing London police detective Nick Belsey, hero of The Hollow Man, an..... More
Faceless Killers
Random House Inc, January 2003. Trade Paperback. From the dean of Scandinavian noir, the first riveting installment in the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Kurt Wallander series, the basis for the PBS series staring Kenneth Branagh. It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish..... More
New York: Confidential!
Dell, 1948. Mass Market PaperBack. Cover somewhat creased. Map back. Dell #440. More
The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel (Vintage)
Vintage, June 2002. Trade Paperback. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches..... More
The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel (Vintage)
Vintage, June 2002. Trade Paperback. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches..... More
Bluebottle (A Lew Griffin Mystery)
Walker Books, November 2000. Trade Paperback. As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he's just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes fully to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. What..... More
Driven
Oldcastle Books Ltd, May 2012. Trade Paperback. The sequel to Drive, the award-winning motion picture.Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. But walking down the street..... More
Killer Is Dying
Walker & Company, August 2012. Trade Paperback. In what is at once a coming-of-age novel and a realistic crime novel, The Killer Is Dying is above all the story of three men of vastly different age and background, and of the shape their lives take against the unforgiving sunlight and..... More
The Criminal
Vintage, January 1993. Trade Paperback. The lives of the Talberts are changed forever when their fifteen-year-old son is charged with rape and murder. More
The Rage (World Noir)
Europa Editions, February 2013. Trade Paperback. Vincent Naylor has just been released from prison and has already begun to plot his next heist--the robbery of an armored car. Detective Sergeant Bob Tidey has been caught perjuring himself to protect fellow officers. He's also found the link between an unsolved murder..... More
Markham: The Case of the Pornographic Photos
Belmont Books, January 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean interiors; solid spine; sticker residue top right hand corner of front cover, else very good. Nice t.v. tie-in cover with Ray Milland illustration. More
