Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide ranging authors working today, draws on his library of short mystery stories to produce this collection, Dead to Me.   Hard-boiled Las Vegas coughs up a very dead and very cold body for the retired detectives of the...

Jimmy Homestead’s glory days as a high school stud were a distant memory. His adulthood had amounted to little more than temporary jobs, petty crime, and discount whiskey. But he always felt he was special, and winning the Lotto proved it. Flush with millions, everything is great for Jimmy—until...

Recently drummed out of a prestigious local university and its forensic research laboratory for blowing the whistle on pillars of the community, Dr. Cornell Westerly is a promising forensic scientist with a brand-new diploma and a California license plate. Hes an apprentice crime scene investigator...

On the bridge over Paterson's Great Falls, a retired state trooper is murdered by a girl in a grammar school uniform. The victim was the beloved uncle of Jack Colt, a private investigator descended from the inventor of the revolver. While investigating his uncle’s murder, Colt realizes that it is...

Spring Training Murders brings the reader back to simpler times right after World War Two when the Boston Red Sox were breaking their humps to beat the Damn Yankees for the pennant and Wold Series. But that all takes an explosive back seat when a rookie pitching phenom falls fowl, disappears, and...

Thriller - racconto lungo (37 pagine) - Quando il passato te lo porti dentro, nemmeno il Rajasthan è un posto abbastanza lontano. Perché, in qualche modo, devi sempre farci i conti. Riccardo è un ex-poliziotto che da anni tira avanti, con crescenti difficoltà, il suo esilio volontario nel...

This short story tribute to the Noir and Hard-boiled genre and era of crime writing comes with an O. Henry twist. Two women, one a detective, the other an apparent felon and fugitive from the law, strike up an edgy romantic relationship that leaves one of them short a thousand dollars. But that’s...

Following a botched heist, professional thief Johnny Park and a small crew of mismatched miscreants rendezvous in the small desert town of Halfway, Arizona. Things go from bad to worse when their fence is found murdered, and it soon becomes clear that someone has followed them to this dusty speck...

Meet Stchvk, a detective so hard-boiled he hatched from an egg.  This saurian P.I. works the green streets of Layafflr City, bringing justice to the downtrodden of the triune Great Family.  Unfortunately, the downtrodden don’t pay very well.  The criminals of Layafflr have the money...

Lurid pulp novel of sex, murder, and hard-boiled detectives.  The book jackes says:  "Shannon was a woman who used sex like a weapon.  She could be a short cut to the top --- or a ticket to the morgue."

Gordon Crane thought he'd seen it all. Formerly one of Carlson Flats finest, a personal tragedy caused him to lose faith in the system he worked for. Now, he's a private investigator working cases that give him less satisfaction; all he wanted to do was help people, but it hasn't worked out that way...

When Achilles Jackson’s latest case file makes its way to his desk, the Soul Detective has no idea it could alter the future of the Afterlife.The longtime resident of Hell is accustomed to tracking Lost Souls through the depths of Lucifer’s world. But this case starts taking unsuspecting turns...

She was the kind of woman a man always noticed, mostly because of her eyes: deep and dark, they'd held a warmth that could easily kindle a fire in one's soul. Now they were staring sightlessly up from the sidewalk. It was a killing without a motive, just the first of a string of murders that led Johnny...

Calvin Hobbs is a cantankerous retired Richmond Police officer who runs a small Private Investigative service, comprising of himself, and himself, having alienated just about everybody in his life over the years. Hobbs will take just about any case, a policy that has got him into trouble before and...