Now and on Earth
10 best books like Now and on Earth (Jim Thompson): I Should Have Stayed Home, Cockfighter, The Union Club Mysteries, The Damned, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A., Deep as the Marrow, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, The Instant Enemy, The Moon in the Gutter
| Author | Horace McCoy |
| ISBN | 1852424028 |
The acclaimed expos? of 1930s Hollywood: the gigolos, the starlets, the fan magazines and the despair behind the glitter. I Should Have Stayed Home tells the story of two jobless roommates and movie extras. After Mona gains notoriety for cursing a judge during a friend?s trial, she and Ralph are introduces...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1596542225 |
The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary man whose obsession with winning will cost him almost everything. In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of Hoke Moseley detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0449205258 |
The Union Club Mysteries is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov featuring his fictional mystery solver Griswold. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1983 and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in 1985.
The book collects...
| Author | John D. MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0709078005 |
Of all the authors that I admire, John D. MacDonald is the one I would have liked to have a meal with most. He had a wisdom about man's motivations that few authors can rival. That wisdom really comes across in this novel.
The situation at the heart of this story is a delayed river crossing. The delay...
| Author | Robert Polito |
| ISBN | 0679733523 |
Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche,...
Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat...
| Author | F. Paul Wilson |
| ISBN | 0312862644 |
Crackpots and left-wingers have talked about it for years, but no one with any real authority has ever considered it. It would be political suicide. But President Thomas Winston has taken the boldest and most bizarre step in the War on Drugs that the United States has ever seen. Vowing to make narcotics...
| Author | Cornell Woolrich |
| ISBN | 1933648279 |
I had some time in a car, had just read some Serious Literary Fiction (a Tolstoy story) and thought I might want a little escape into dark mystery, into the world of a guy Raymond Chandler called "the best idea man in the business." Before there was film noir, there was the "roman noir," and Conrad Woolrich...
| Author | Ross Macdonald |
| ISBN | 0446358959 |
Lew Archer is hired by a middle-class couple to find their troubled runaway daughter, and soon learns that she may be traveling with her psychotic boyfriend--and her father's shotgun--toward something that looks a little like a robbery and a whole lot like revenge.
The resolution of...
| Author | David Goodis |
| ISBN | 1852424494 |
In a back street in the rough end of Philadelphia, docker William Kerrigan obsesses over the mysterious suicide of his sister. Into a dive bar walks Lorretta Channing the beautiful, enigmatic socialite and sister of Newton the drunk. Loretta's the impossible dream, the escape route out of his hellhole...
Love's Lovely Counterfeit
I was aware of the author as a primary source for some of my favorite noir movies, so I knid of knew what to expect. Indeed, this is very much a book of its time: 1942. Lake City - an imaginary mid Western town after the prohibition, the gangsters have the police and politicians under their thumb and can act...
A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
| Author | Melvin Powers |
| ISBN | 0879801220 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Robert Tine |
| ISBN | 0312970188 |
In this relentlessly gripping psychological thriller, Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost, an astronaut sent on a space shuttle mission with his partner, Captain Alex Streck. While in space, an accident occurs that cuts all contact between the men and earth for two minutes. Both men return from the...
Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 0878576525 |
Working up the corporate ladder is all well and good for most people, but you are not "most people." You are a highly motivated individual who wants to be on the fast track, and you cannot afford to fritter away valuable time working diligently and competently on the job. You need Dave Barry's surefire...
