Hard Boiled category: 6975 books

This hard boiled detective fiction collection, contains the following 4 Anthony Carrick mysteries: Money Ain't Nothing: Money ain’t nothing if you’ve got a lot of it. But then again, a lot of money won’t necessarily buy happiness either. In this Anthony Carrick mystery, hard boiled...

Hard-boiled detective Race Williams investigates the strangest murder of his career. Another classic from the pages of Black Mask Magazine. Story #5 in the Race Williams series. Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's...

What the critics say about Bad August: "...one of the two best first novels (of the year)... Joe Noonan is a gem... characters you'll want to meet again -- and soon. Hearn's writing is effortless, and although it may have been a bad August for Joe Noonan, his story is a delight for a reader...

A priest’s death leads a Detroit gumshoe into a case of church corruption in this mordantly funny hard-boiled crime novel Ralph Poteet is forty pounds overweight, out of gin, and he hasn’t seen his gun in weeks. As far as private detectives go, he’s not much to look at. But he’s the...

Can a Hard-Boiled Private Detective survive in today's world? Can a dead man tell a tale? Early one morning, Private investigator Gabe Storm is summoned to an apartment by the NYPD, where Storm learns his best friend, Scotty Granger, a Broadway playwright, is dead. Police believe Granger died in a...

Praise for The Whole Lie "The Massachusetts gubernatorial race forms the backdrop for Ulfelder's excellent sequel to his Edgar-finalist debut, Purgatory Chasm… Readers will want to see more of Ulfelder's tough but vulnerable lead, whose narration offers a warts-and-all view of his multifaceted...

For the first time, Race Williams encounters the mysterious masked Red Peril in the biggest case of his hard-boiled career thus far. Story #3 in the Race Williams series. Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's...

Each of us, I suppose, has had a 'to be or not to be’ moment. We wonder, during those dark minutes, if maintaining our existence is worth the pain and effort. Happily, most of us shrug off such thoughts and plod along, hoping for brighter times down the road. And so begins "Susceptible",...

City Of Big Dreams is an action packed detective mystery set in Los Angeles in the forties. A witness to murder is missing. A grieving sister wants justice. A movie star idol is no hero. Can wise-cracking detective Frank Shannon walk the line between mobsters and crooked cops and save his clients?...

Shannon's City is an action packed detective thriller set in Los Angeles in the forties. A nightclub owner is blackmailed. An innocent wife is murdered. A civic leader and his family are under threat. An irate father wants justice for his daughter. Can wise-cracking detective Frank Shannon stop the...

"Mr. Cardigan... if we come to terms, I'll go and fetch your daughter back. I don't want to be considered a killer, but if your son-in-law is as quick as you say, why—I'll bring your daughter home a widow!" Race Williams travels to Mexico in another hard-boiled classic from the pages of...

Better Corpses, by Carroll John Daly, the man who founded the hard-boiled detective genre.Erle Stanley Gardner calls Daly's hero, Race Williams, "incomparably hard-boiled, bone-crushing, and fast shooting," and The New York Times describes Daly's writing as filled with "swift action,...

MAREK MIERT IST ZURÜCK: EIN NEUER FALL FÜR DEN KULTIGEN HINTERHOF-DETEKTIV. Marek Miert gehen die Aufträge nicht aus. Dubiose Gestalten stehen zu allen möglichen und unmöglichen Uhrzeiten vor der Tür des schwergewichtigen Hinterhof-Detektivs: Sei es eine ehemalige Liebschaft, die Miert als Babysitter...

Turbine 7000 Dozer, a seven-foot tall robot, arrives in San Francisco after many long years. With a war still waging across the solar system he hopes to make use of what little time off he has, but the reunion seems to only remind him that war follows, even in times of peace and respite. Nearly...