The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
10 best books like The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Otto Penzler): Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, Lemons Never Lie, Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44), Say It With Bullets (Hard Case Crime #18), The Vengeful Virgin, Fright (Hard Case Crime #34), Shooting Star / Spiderweb (Hard Case Crime #42), The Cage, Abandoned Cars, Lesser Demons
Compellingly and compulsively readable, "Hard-bolied: An Anthology of American Crime Stories" is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Included are thirty-six superbly suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest...
| Author | Richard Stark |
| ISBN | 0843955945 |
Perhaps the first clue that Donald Westlake was planning to close out the world of Richard Stark, the previous Grofield adventures involved him being dropped into someone else’s intrigue against his will; this one could have been a Parker story. It involves a job that is a definite "no" from the beginning,...
| Author | Donald E. Westlake |
| ISBN | 0843959622 |
Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings, Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do...
| Author | Richard Powell |
| ISBN | 0843955899 |
Bill Wayne is touring the country, conveniently stopping at cities where old partners of his live, trying to find out which of them shot him in the back years ago in China and took a shot at him in front of his house weeks before. His tour guide is a girl that had a crush on him when he was in high school. His old...
| 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...
Fright (Hard Case Crime #34)
| 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 | Robert Bloch |
| ISBN | 0843959606 |
Spiderweb:
Loser wannabee actor Eddie Haines falls in with a blackmailing ring led by the sinister Professor. But when Eddie falls for one of the Professor's targets, he has to get out any way he can...
The first of the short novels in this collection was pretty good. Eddie's slide into life...
| Author | Kenzo Kitakata |
| ISBN | 1932234241 |
Kazuya Takino leads a quiet life running a supermarket in the Tokyo suburbs. But when an extortionist tries to force him out of business, he finds himself drawn into the yakuza underworld-a world he once called home and thought he had left behind. Pursuing him is Detective Takagi, an aficionado of French...
| Author | Tim Lane |
| ISBN | 1560979186 |
Graphic shorts in a Jim Thompson vein. Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories, noir-ish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. Lane's characters...
| Author | Norman Partridge |
| ISBN | 1596062940 |
Tales of hardboiled horror and Twilight Zone noir. Cross-genre blowtorches with bad guys and worse guys. Love stories both dark and bittersweet. A brand new novella and extensive story notes. You’ll find this and more in the fifth collection from three-time Bram Stoker award-winner Norman Partridge,...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0618517456 |
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow
Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for...
4.5 stars
This series is flipping fantastic! I feel like it's been written just for me. It has everything in it that I love right now and want to be reading to escape from life and have a helluva good time. I blew right through this one in a day and a half, not realizing there won't be another Sam Thornton...
| Author | Harold Lamb |
| ISBN | 0803280483 |
Master of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard’s favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb’s greatest hero, the wolf of the steppes, Khlit the Cossack. Journey now with the unsung grandfather of...
| Author | Paul Cain |
| ISBN | 0887390781 |
First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, 'Fast One' by Paul Cain (one of the mystery men of American literature) explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge...
| Author | David Morrell |
| ISBN | 1933515562 |
The most riveting reads in history meet today's biggest thriller writers in Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.
Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads examines 100 seminal works of suspense through essays contributed by such esteemed modern thriller writers as: David...
Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, King Kull, and others that defined heroic fantasy, lived and died in the small town of Cross Plains, Texas. While his books remain in print, Howard himself has fallen into obscurity, his life mired in speculation and half-truth. This engaging biography traces the...
| Author | Manly Wade Wellman |
| ISBN | 0440197767 |
There's a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit,...
| Author | Paul Gravett |
| ISBN | 0762433949 |
One of the only compilations of the crime comic genre, this volume contains 25 of the best graphic short stories, spanning all the nuances of noir, from classic American newspaper strip serials and notorious uncensored comic books to today’s global graphic novel masterpieces. This collection...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 1857152573 |
The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.
When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing...
| Author | David Goodis |
| ISBN | 0679736980 |
Night Squad - fast-paced David Goodis noir crime novel republished by Blackmask featuring the cover of the original 1961 edition.
There they are, two sleek, tough looking dudes in suits and dress hats stepping from the light of a police precinct, venturing into the night, ready...
Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last--and most successful--novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length...
| Author | Charles Ardai |
| ISBN | 0843959681 |
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME!
Okay, not really. But what if, instead of having been founded 50 books ago, Hard Case Crime had been founded 50 years ago, by a rascal out to make a quick buck off the popularity of pulp fiction? Such a fellow might make a few enemies – especially after publishing...
| Author | Warren Hammond |
| ISBN | 0765312743 |
In this hardboiled science fiction thriller, Juno, having been booted off the police force, is barely getting by as a low-level bagman and photographer for the scandal rags. But it gets worse: his wife is in critical condition at the hospital and Juno doesn’t have the money to pay her bills. Desperate...
| Author | Joe Gores |
| ISBN | 0307264645 |
When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with...
