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<<< 1 2 3 4 >>>     sort list by title | author The Dashiell Hammett Tour Thirtieth Anniversary Guidebook Don Herron Lovers of Hammett rejoice! The long out of print Dashiell Hammett tour book is back. Thanks to Vince Emmory Editions, a brand new, gorgeously produced, and reasonably priced 30th anniversary edition has now hit the shelves of City Lights. This volume... The Damned Don't Die A Novel Jim Nisbet Overlook continues it reissues of the incomparable Jim Nisbit's oeuvre with The Damned Don't Die. This is his first novel and it is a gruesome and dark novel set in... A Moment of Doubt Jim Nisbet The streets of San Francisco ooze with danger, sex, poets, and technology in this hard-boiled mystery, creating a story that is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene. Set in the 1980s, this is the tale of an idealistic and angst-ridden writer who... Lethal Injection A Novel Jim Nisbet Jim Nisbet's cult classic Lethal Injection, one of the first Black Lizard Books originals, has been out of print in the United States for an unforgivably long time (though it lives on in France and Germany, where Nisbet has become a true phenomenon)... The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.  Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine... Spade & Archer The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon Joseph Gores A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett's beloved detective, Sam Spade.  It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon.  He’s just set up his own agency... Hard Rain Falling Don Carpenter Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an... The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson National Bestseller An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel... San Francisco Noir 2 The Classics Peter Maravelis Classic reprints from: Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett, Fletcher Flora, Bill Pronzini, Joe Gores, Janet Dawson, Oscar Pearanda, Seth Morgan, Craig Clevenger, and others.Peter Maravelis is a native San... World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and... A Case of Two Cities An Inspector Chen Novel Qiu Xiaolong Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But Xing left behind his... Epitaph for a Tramp & Epitaph for a Dead Beat The Harry Fannin Detective Novels David Markson Before he became known to the literary world for the brilliant Wittgenstein's Mistress, Markson made a living by writing pulps. But these were no ordinary pulps. Markson had great fun playing with the conventions of the genre, and they are just as fun... A Feast for Crows A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4 George R. R. Martin Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin's monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for... The Dead All Have The Same Skin Boris Vian TamTam Books is proud (as usual) to announce the publication of Vernon SullivanÂ’s (or better known as Boris Vian) masterpiece of noir-gone berserk – The Dead All Have The Same Skin (Les Morts ont tous la Meme Peau). Written one year after the... <<< 1 2 3 4 >>>