The Burnt Orange Heresy

8 best books like The Burnt Orange Heresy (Charles Willeford): Gideon the Ninth, A Little Hatred, Queer, He Died With His Eyes Open, Nothing More Than Murder, The Moon in the Gutter, Black Wings Has My Angel, Hanno tutti ragione

Gideon the Ninth
AuthorTamsyn Muir
ISBN1250313198
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
A Little Hatred
AuthorJoe Abercrombie
The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.

On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the...
Queer
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN0330300164
I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his...
AuthorDerek Raymond
ISBN1852427965
When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a tough-talking cynic from the Department of Unexplained Deaths. Our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. What...
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316403938
Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town--but Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king. Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his leadership, the theater would close in a heartbeat. If it isn't...
AuthorDavid Goodis
ISBN1852424494
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...
AuthorElliott Chaze
ISBN1596542136
Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in nearly half a century. The one book Black Lizard never published, it's the dream-like tale of a man after a jailbreak, who meets up with the woman of his dreams... and his nightmares. Phenomenal work of the...
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AuthorPaolo Sorrentino
ISBN8807018098
Tony Pagoda è un cantante melodico con tanto passato alle spalle. La sua è stata la scena di un’Italia florida e sgangheratamente felice. Ha avuto il talento, i soldi, le donne. È stato tutto molto facile e tutto all’insegna del successo. Ma quando la vita comincia a complicarsi…

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