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"Lochte at his best." Sue Grafton
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"Cynical and perverse under the skin."
The New York Times on The Neon Smile
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BLUE BAYOU
254 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-33-3
| THE NEON SMILE
254 PAGES $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-34-0
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"Dick Lochte is a superb craftsman. . . .
The Neon Smile, with its tantalizing blend
of past and present, is Lochte at his best."
Sue Grafton
"The Neon Smile is as colorful and entertaining as
any police thriller ever inspired by the Big Easy."
Joseph Wambaugh
"Chockful of dark humor, wordplay and subtle clues,
the novel is rich enough to reward multiple readings."
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"I couldn't put The Neon Smile down. Terry Manion grabbed me
. . . and pulled me deeper and tighter with every passing line!
Dick Lochte is an artist; the book is literate, intelligent,
funny, loving and a helluva good read."
Robert Crais
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"There's nobody better at the American crime novel
than Max Allan Collins." The Big Book of Noir
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FLY PAPER
162 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-22-7
| HARD CASH
150 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-23-4
| HUSH MONEY
180 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-24-1
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Nolan wants a piece of the American dream . . .
and he'll take it at gunpoint.
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MOURN THE LIVING
172 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-25-8
| SCRATCH FEVER
164 PAGES $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-26-5
| SPREE
212 PAGES $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-27-2
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"Witty, hardboiled prose." Entertainment Weekly
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"Blasting out of a time warp, straight from
the 1940s. It's set in modern Hollywood, but it's old -time
California noir, right down to its Bakelite heart. . . . Luscious."
Booklist
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Long-time character actor
Clive Rosengren
(Cheers, Seinfeld, Ed Wood) pens a lively
private-eye tale about Hollywood
and one of its dirty little secrets:
What some people won't do
to sleep with a star.
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MURDER UNSCRIPTED
CLIVE ROSENGREN
122 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK $8.00
ISBN: 978-1-935797-19-7
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"So entertaining I wished it had continued
for at least another hundred pages. Think you'd like
to be a movie star? Think again. . . . Purrs along fast
and smooth, and the ending delivers . . . a sweet surprise."
Betty Webb, Mystery Scene
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"This isn't a book you'd want to give to your best
friend who loves cozies . . . a collection full
of the real hardboiled thing."
Bill Crider, Mystery Scene
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Here, from an extraordinary writer equally at home
in California noir and bayou dope deals (with zombies),
is a sharp, profane and stunning collection of short fiction.
As NPR said, some of these crime stories
would cause Nancy Drew to faint into her plate
of cucumber tea sandwiches.
"Highly entertaining selections . . .
spotlight the hip urban scene Phillips has
made his own. . . . Those looking for a fun romp
amid crime and killers will be satisfied."
Publishers Weekly
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TREACHEROUS
GARY PHILLIPS
230 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-20-3
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"Highly recommended!"
I Love a Mystery
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"What a treasure! . . . literally a blow-by-blow account of
the creation of three of the strongest Queen novels."
Francis M. Nevins
The writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee
(better known by their joint byline of Ellery Queen) produced
some of the most ambitious mystery novels of the mid-20th Century.
Yet their relationship was acrimonious, marred by pain,
financial and professional dependency and mistrust.
Here, culled from the Dannay archives by author
and dramatist Joseph Goodrich,
is the selected correspondence of these two
volatile men during a period of their most important
creative achievements.
With a Foreword by longtime television producer-writer
William Link (Columbo, Ellery Queen, Murder, She Wrote).
"A superlative book . . . jaw-dropping revelations."
William Link
BLOOD RELATIONS:
The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen
1947-1950
JOSEPH GOODRICH, EDITOR
WILLIAM LINK, FOREWORD
150 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-38-8
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Publishers Weekly:
"Fans of hard-edged spy novels will hope that this outing for disgraced
Wall Street banker Patrick McCarry is but the first of many
from Ross (Long Pig). . . . Twists straight out
of a John le Carré novel . . . [and ] sardonic wit."
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Patrick McCarry, a down-on-his-luck Wall Street
banker, can't expect much sympathy back home.
A hedge fund has blown up, and McCarry looks
just the right size for a federal prison cell.
Hanging out in Europe, he hooks up
with a folksy Midwesterner who wants help
picking through failed businesses. Chester Holt
and his ample wife Charity have a homily
for every occasion.
One of them is "Don't be a doom and gloomster!"
That means: If you're right on the doorstep
of the Balkans, pretty soon somebody is going
to want to buy guns from you.
DEATH IN BUDAPEST
JAMES L. ROSS
180 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-17-3
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Congratulations to Ed Gorman on receipt of the
Private Eye Writers' Lifetime Achievement Award!
September 2011
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"One of suspense fiction's best storytellers,"
says Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
Dean Koontz adds:
"Gorman's writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet."
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In the deep woods, a well. In the well, a Voice . . .
The Voice speaks of lust, and blood, and murder
to any who listen.
Under the spell of Cindy Brasher,
almost every young man will listen.
CAGE OF NIGHT
192 PAGES TRADE PAPERBACK $9.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-18-0
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"Fun through the last wry line." Publishers Weekly
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Two capers by the suave (and if he does admit it, handsome) scam
artist Milo Turner, who has been entertaining readers
of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for decades.
In THE 120 HOUR CLOCK, the love of Turner's life (a scamstress,
of course) dies in the middle of a complicated scheme.
Suspecting murder, Milo sets out for revenge . . . and money.
In THE NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE, Milo Turner takes on
a religious cult, hoping to prove a high-tech mogul's
handwritten will is a forgery. All he has to do is walk into the
cult's home town and snatch a bundle of love letters
the mogul supposedly wrote as a teenager. Easy enough.
It's not as though anyone would try to kill him . . .
These new editions contain Afterwords by the author, two-time
Edgar winner Francis M. Nevins, as well as reprints of the early
short stories that inspired the novels.
THE 120 HOUR CLOCK
FRANCIS M. NEVINS
134 PAGES $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-935797-37-1
THE NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE
FRANCIS M. NEVINS
134 PAGES $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-935797-36-4
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Publishers Weekly Starred Review:
"Superior science thriller. . . . Boland's taut atmospherics are top-notch,
and the evolutionary themes he explores are easily accessible to
nonscientists."
Mystery Scene Review:
"A riveting scientific suspense novel on the order of the popular Preston
and Child thrillers. . . . Boland makes complicated theories about DNA
and genetically linked illnesses easily understood. And in contrast to
many science-heavy suspense novelists, Boland also has the ability to
create three-dimensional characters. [The hero's] love life is a mess; Silas
Merton, the island's mayor and only clergyman, is also the town drunk;
and even brutish Luther turns out to be much, much more than your
average killer. . . . Hominid never fails to make for exciting reading."
(Betty Webb)
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Archaeologist David Isaac joins a team excavating a crypt
on a remote island where a colonial-era family lies buried.
By local lore, the family were "devils." The expedition's
leader hopes to revive his career by proving
they were murdered by neighbors in a burst
of religious hysteria.
But these cadavers harbor an older and deadlier secret.
And nobody is prepared for what is about to emerge.
HOMINID JOHN C. BOLAND 350 PAGES $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-935797-16-6
"Roars along like a BMW in heat." Kirkus on DEATH IN JERUSALEM
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LOVE AND NIGHT
Unknown Stories by Cornell Woolrich
Edited by Francis M. Nevins
192 PAGES $12.00 ISBN: 978-1-935797-35-7
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Down on the bayou . . . murder
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In steamy Shreveport, Louisiana, two musical
legends-in-the-making come together: a whiskey-soaked
country singer named Hank Williams and blues artist Muddy Waters.
What they've got in common, over several hectic days of drinking,
singing and whoring, is an interest in staying alive despite
local mobsters, bent cops, a truckload of Ku Klux Klansmen, and a bayou
full of alligators. (Did we mention a bankrobber's lusty daughter?)
HANK & MUDDY arrives with advance praise:
“A terrific novel! One of my favorite writers . . . a born storyteller . . . Enjoy!”
MAX ALLAN COLLINS (ROAD TO PERDITION, QUARRY)
Booklist lauded Mertz's earlier novel, THE KOREAN INTERCEPT, as
“An adrenaline rush!”
HANK & MUDDY STEPHEN MERTZ 214 PAGES $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-935797-13-5
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* Booklist Starred Review:
"Chess Hanrahan, the book-loving New York City
gumshoe who's prone to tunnel vision when something
gets under his skin, deserves a much wider readership. . . .
"Hanrahan is a great character, a guy who values literature,
loves movies, despises stupidity and duplicity, and, when
he gets working on a puzzle, absolutely will not stop
until he's solved it.
"Fans of detective fiction . . . will love this novel--
and all of Cline's work."
David Pitt, Booklist May 2011
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The new Nick Delvecchio mystery
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* Starred Review: Booklist
"The final entry in Randisi's Brooklyn trilogy
is dark, brooding, and thoroughly compelling [with] . . . clever
plotting and an engaging narrative voice. Randisi has written
hundreds of crime stories and earned numerous awards.
This is among his finest efforts."
Wes Lukowsky, Booklist May 2011
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"Like a great twelve-bar blues--the comfort of a familiar form
jazzed by a fresh key and an exciting new voice."
Lee Child on NO TIME TO MOURN
The Pink Tarantula
A Novel in 9 Episodes
Tim Wohlforth
Crip and Henrietta aren't your typical
California private eyes. Crip's real name
is Tom Bateman. His sometime sidekick
with body piercings and spiked green hair,
Henrietta, calls him "Crip" because
he rides a wheelchair. When she isn't
mocking him, Henrietta
grows marijuana, hangs with jailbirds,
and brings in cases that reek
of trouble--and weed--at first sniff.
In nine closely related episodes, we watch
their relationship grow as both characters
struggle to bridge chasms of bitterness
and mistrust.
174 pages. Trade Paperback. $12.95. ISBN: 978-1-935797-11-1
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Prize-winning western writer Troy Smith
makes a dazzling crime-novel debut.
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"Drugs, murder, a little Voodoo, and the blues. Check it out."
Bill Crider
"One of the best crime novels I've read in a long time."
James Reasoner
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Roy Carpenter, blues-playing harmonica man
in 1957 Nashville, knows great music when he hears it.
He also knows a dangerous woman when he looks
at her . . . and finds her looking back.
Beautiful Sallymae's got a brutal husband,
just the kind of guy to wind up dead
with Roy taking the fall.
Here is a sharply observed novel steeped
in the atmosphere of character and place,
of sexual passion and the blues.
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TRADE PAPERBACK 198 PAGES $13.95 ISBN: 978-1-935797-09-8
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"Faherty writes this era like he was there."
Crime Spree
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"Good writing and plotting." Jon Breen, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Includes the never-before-published "Sleep Big,"
in which Elliott cracks a case that famously eluded
both Philip Marlowe and his creator.
In "Garbo's Knees" a paving slab signed by
the reclusive screen legend has gone missing.
But was it Garbo's slab the thief was after?
Chasing stray actresses, hot jewelry, and
a gun that may have started a war, Scott Elliott
takes us on a tour of Hollywood as the sun sets.
With an introduction by the author.
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TRADE PAPERBACK 246 PAGES $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-935797-08-1
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TRADE PAPERBACK 318 PAGES $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-935797-10-4
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"Gorman showcases the darker side
of his talents in this solid collection."
-- Publishers Weekly
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"One of our finest contemporary
short story writers regardless of genre."
Jon Breen Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
250 pages $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-5-4
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13 dark tales of murder and revenge
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"The Baby Store" "Comeback" "Flying Solo" "Aftermath"
"A Little Something to Believe In" (with Larry Segriff)
"Loose Ends" "Killing Kate" "Favor and the Princess"
"Heritage" (with Terence Butler) "The Long Way Back"
"Rafferty's Comeback" "That Day at Eagle's Point"
"Such a Good Girl"
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Two-time Edgar-winner Nevins's 28 tales
of mystery and suspense
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Ranging from classic whodunits to bone-chilling
suspense, here are twenty-eight adventures
of Nevins’s popular series characters:
lawyer-sleuth Loren Mensing, scamster Milo Turner,
lady cop Gene Holt, along with a bevy of stand-alones,
including “Open Letter to Survivors.”
Fittingly, as many of the stories appeared first
in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nevins provides
an introduction recalling fondly his early mentoring
by EQMM’s founding editor Fred Dannay. The author
adds historical notes in an afterword to each story.
NIGHT FORMS
by Francis M. Nevins
378 pages. $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-00-5
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The Best Writers . . . The Best Private Eyes . . .
The Toughest Cases
The SHAMUS WINNERS
America's Best Private Eye Stories
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"If you're a fan of private eye short fiction,
these books are must-have items."
James Reasoner
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Volume I (1982-1995)
336 pages $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-4-7
| Volume II (1996-2009)
282 pages $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-6-1
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Chess Hanrahan is back in a challenging new novel.
It's 1987 and a cabal of social scientists are shaping
American thought, while Soviet agents make a grab
for an obscure computer company. When a woman
working undercover is murdered, the FBI is ordered
to keep "hands off" the politically charged case.
Enter Chess Hanrahan, a
"thinking man's Mike Hammer."
Chess doesn't like dictatorships, or social theorists,
or devious intellectuals. (He's not sure about a sexy
short-story writer who has dropped into his life.)
The Russians and their friends are about to run smack into
a private detective who uses both his mind and his fists.
Because Hanrahan knows the cold truth:
Ideas can kill.
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PRESENCE OF MIND
TRADE PAPERBACK 198 PAGES $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-9825157-0-9
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FIRST PRIZE
Edward Cline
With a new preface by the author.
A brilliant novelist wins
a literary award and disappears.
Private investigator Chess Hanrahan, a "thinking
man's Mike Hammer" who reads books and people,
turns up more than murder in this sharp-edged,
provocative tale by the author of the
popular Sparrowhawk series.
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"A striking tale."
Allen J. Hubin
The Armchair Detective
198 Pages $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-7-8
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The Guilt Edge
15 hard-boiled stories by "one of the last
true pulp writers" (Booklist)
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"He's one of the best."
MICHAEL CONNELLY
"A masterful writer."
JAMES W. HALL
"Skillful, uncompromising."
JOHN LUTZ
232 pages $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-3-0
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Cop on the run . . .
in a new bare-knuckled novel by
ROBERT J. RANDISI
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Jake Gilmartin's pals
on the NYPD are out
to kill him. The only man
he can turn to is his son
. . . who hates his guts.
the bottom
of
every bottle
186 pages $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-1-6
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"NO FAT ON ITS BONES. NEVER SLOWS DOWN."
Bill Crider
" . . . ROCKETS ALONG. A GOOD, TOUGH COP THRILLER."
James Reasoner
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Novice sleuth Meggie Trevor is so broke
she'll take on any client who pays cash. . .
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LAST ISLAND SOUTH
JOHN C. BOLAND
International Thriller Writers finalist
Two-time Shamus nominee
244 pages $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-8-5
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Meggie's new client aims to be Porn King
of the Florida Keys.
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OUT OF HER DEPTH
JOHN C. BOLAND
International Thriller Writers finalist
Two-time Shamus nominee
255 pages $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-98251257-9-2
"Roars along like a BMW in heat."
Kirkus on Death in Jerusalem
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" . . . style, substance, and versatility."
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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24 chilling stories from
Hitchcock's and Ellery Queen's
mystery magazines . . .
30 YEARS IN THE PULPS
JOHN C. BOLAND
International Thriller Writers finalist
Two-time Shamus nominee
346 pages $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9825157-2-3
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