THE LONDON CRIMES was originally published in the September 15, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
Thefts, frauds, robberies, murder — all for millions. The Harvester reaps what he has sown, but The Shadow comes along to check the harvest of...
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...
THE MAN FROM SCOTLAND YARD was originally published in the August 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
This is the story of Inspector Eric Delka, the man from Scotland Yard. It's also the story of a spy ring out to steal secret plans for new...
It has the same rather breathless progress round Europe as the other three books, in this case Geneva, Evian, Cannes, Turin, and various towns in Alpine France (see pictures below), and one gets the sense by the end that Canning was ready to ditch...
Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream.
Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved. When she...
A trio of classic novels in the third omnibus from "the king of hard boiled crime fiction" (_USA Today_).
"There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate" (_New York Times_), and it's in full force in this...
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
Who calls the shots for the country's toughest gangsters? Who makes them dance to an offer they can't refuse? Who is the invisible power behind the scenes of Manhattan's billion-dollar protection...
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...
It all started when a small statuette — stolen from a fifteenth-century tomb during the French Revolution — turned up suddenly in America.
A man named Harrow, the very rich father of a very naughty daughter, offered Parker $50,000, in...