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Author	Lawrence Block
ISBN	0843953497

ALERT: HARD CASE CRIME MAY CAUSE INTENSE, MULTIPLE BOOKGASMS!!

HCC, you saucy, filthy, gorgeous little minx. I’m so glad I found you. After gobbling up book #1, I learned there are...steady...steady...65 MORE OF THESE...which made me...well...


NOIRites, I gotta tell...

Author	Christa Faust
ISBN	0843959584

Ex-porn star and talent agent Angel Dare has been set up, beaten up, and left for dead. Now she's hiding from the law AND the bad guys who want a missing suitcase. What does Angel want? Revenge, and she'll do whatever it takes to get the men who ruined her life.

This was a fun read of the fast and furious...

Author	Richard Aleas
ISBN	0843953519

Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up shot to death on the roof of New York s seediest strip club? It s up to detective John Blake to uncover his ex-girlfriend s secret life as a striptease queen. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he uncovers,...

Author	Donald E. Westlake
ISBN	0843961147

Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries.

SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY

Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man’s mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her.

But the punk was innocent....

Author	Lawrence Block
ISBN	1783297506

Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who’s looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep...

Author	Allan Guthrie
ISBN	0843953551

Finalist 2006 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original — Finalist 2006 Anthony Award for Best Paperback — When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don't pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope. — But now Joe's got troubles of his own. His teenage daughter's found...

Author	Gil Brewer
ISBN	0843957700

HER WEALTHY STEPFATHER WAS DYING - BUT NOT QUICKLY ENOUGH

What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that's the life she was trapped in - until she met Jack.

Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery...

Author	Richard Aleas
ISBN	0843957735

Little Girl ... Found. — Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever -- and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers...

Author	Cornell Woolrich
ISBN	0843957743

Soon to be married Prescott Marshall goes on a bender and winds up sleeping with a young lady that isn't his fiancee. She starts squeezing him for money afterwards and on the morning of his wedding, Prescott snaps! He spends the rest of his life running, but you can't run from Fright!

Actually,...

Author	Christopher Moore
ISBN	0060735414

There is an alternate cover edition here.

Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.

Making the...

Author	Anne Perry
ISBN	0449210677

This 4th novel in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series illustrated for me the importance of reading a series sequentially.

A corpse turns up in an unlikely place, and even more mystifying, the corpse is three weeks old and was obviously dug up from its burial site. An empty grave is discovered...

Author	Max Allan Collins
ISBN	0881500577

Quarry is hired to kill Albert Leroy, a virtual nobody. The job comes off without a hitch but when Quarry gets back to the apartment he'd been using as a lookout, his partner is dead and the money is gone. Quarry needs to know who hired them for the hit and the Broker is suspiciously uncooperative. Can Quarry...