The Corpse Wore Pasties (Hard Case Crime, #62)

10 best books like The Corpse Wore Pasties (Hard Case Crime, #62) (Jonny Porkpie): The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Miami Blues, Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime #1), A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17), The Vengeful Virgin, Songs of Innocence, The Grifters, Fifty-to-One (Hard Case Crime #50), The Criminal, Vastarien: A Literary Journal

The Ten Thousand Doors of January
AuthorAlix E. Harrow
ISBN0316421995
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke,...
Miami Blues
AuthorCharles Willeford
ISBN1400032466
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly...
Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime #1)
AuthorLawrence Block
ISBN0843953497
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...
AuthorCharles Williams
ISBN0843955880
When washed up football player Lee Scarborough gets hired to steal $120,000 from a banker's widow, how can he pass it up? Little does Lee know that other people have their sights set on the money and the widow herself. And Madelon Butler, the widow, is the most deadly of them all...

A Touch of Death...
AuthorGil Brewer
ISBN0843957700
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...
Songs of Innocence
AuthorRichard Aleas
ISBN0843957735
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...
The Grifters
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316404055
To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.

Yet, hidden behind...
AuthorCharles Ardai
ISBN0843959681
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...
The Criminal
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316403962
Everyone in Kenton Hills knows that short-tempered, tongue-tied Bob Talbert wasn't the one responsible for the brutal crime that ended Josie Eddleman's life. Nevermind that he was the last one to see her alive.

But in a town filled with the likes of an amoral tabloid reporter known only as The...
Vastarien: A Literary Journal
AuthorDagny Paul
ISBN0692089276
VASTARIEN is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas. The journal includes nonfiction, literary horror fiction, poetry, artwork and non-classifiable hybrid pieces.

Vol. 1, Issue 1 Contents:

• Foreword...
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