Returning to her South Side alma mater for a reunion, private detective V.I. Warshawski becomes involved in the search for a former classmate's long-lost father, a quest that uncovers a web of corruption, danger, and...
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WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
The Shadow knows! The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, but none more deadly than the criminal genius called THE BLACK MASTER. Clearly it's a case for The Shadow… to uncover this emperor of evil...
MacDonald apparently loathes the Hollywood scene, and he creates some characters to show us why. (A couple of times during the series Travis reels off a list of things he has no use for, and "actresses" are included.) There's a new character...
The Long Goodbye (1953) is a milestone in the genre. This novel demonstrated for the first time that hard-boiled fiction could serve as a vehicle for social comment and critique. While the apparent plot is slower paced and less metaphoric than...
Blade Runner meets Bogart in this blend of science fiction and film noir grit that continues the adventures of Mick Trubble: the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wry-witted private eye of the future.
Mick has little time to digest the revelations...
When Joe Boyle delivered the message to Renzo, one of the toughest crime lords in the city, he didn't expect to be beaten to within an inch of his life. But the message was from Vetter, one the most dangerous underworld figures. No one had ever...
This book predated the first Rambo movie (1982). Read it and see if you think it had anything to do with inspiring the movie series. Like those movies, it features guerrilla action and commando tactics, and carries far-fetched heroics to the...
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" The Knight of Darkness investigates supercrime.
Lamont Cranston is called in to investigate "The Case of Congressman Coyd". What is behind the bizarre turnaround of a...
Johnny Jerome is a hard-nosed Private Detective in a city plagued with crime
and vice. When a simple missing person case suddenly escalates into a run in
with the local mob and a whole heap of trouble… And that’s when the...
THE SHADOW — He fights crime that the Police can't stop, then fades back into the shadows from which he sprung!
MARKED TO DIE
Six prominent men were expecting a share in a glittering fortune. But, one by one, they were being brutally...