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In Mildred Pierce, noir master James M. Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devasting emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses:...
Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses:...
2) The snowman
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Inspector Harry Hole is tested to the very limits of his sanity by a killer with a strange signature: a snowman. One night, after the year's first snowfall, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and...
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An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak...
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Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of Senator Ralph Bancroft Henry, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebreds. Did he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Madvig was innocent, which of his dozens of enemies was doing an awfully good job of framing him? Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing...
5) Iron Annie
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2022.
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"Dundalk-The Town, to locals-took Aoife in when she left home at eighteen. Now she's gone from small time slinger of hash to a bona fide part of the crew that runs Dundalk's less legal enterprises. So when she's approached by the Rat King, a trusted associate, and asked to off-load a shipment of coke, she knows she can handle the job. The only issue is Aoife's girlfriend, Annie. The Rat King doesn't trust Annie, but Aoife doesn't trust herself to...
6) Cockroaches
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2014.
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When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers this is much more than one random murder.
7) Shady Hollow
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2022.
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"The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony--until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter...
13) Drawing dead
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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"The man known only as Cross and his skilled team of urban mercenaries are back (Blackjack, Urban Renewal), but this time they are on the defensive as they receive a series of cryptic messages. The question is, are they being warned or hunted? A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Chicago the reigning number one city in homicides has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71, and it's the...
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Vintage Crime / Black Lizard : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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2019.
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Edgar Award-winning editor Penzler's new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood is made of. He delivers the director's cut on these classic short stories and the films they gave rise to.
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Vintage Books
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2018.
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Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade. When he's hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe's small web...
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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2011.
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Dashing P.R. man Peter Sargent is hired by a ballet company on the eve of a major upcoming performance. Handling the press seems to be no problem, but when a rising star in the company is killed during the performance--dropped from thirty feet above the stage, crashing to her death in a perfect fifth position--Sargent has a real case on his hands. As he ingratiates himself with the players behind the scenes (especially one lovely young ballerina),...
20) Shetani's sister
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Vintage/Penguin/Random House
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2015.
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"Relates the deadly duel between two complex men: LAPD vice cop Sergeant Russell Rucker, determined to clean up prostitution and police corruption while battling his own alcoholic demons; and Shetani (Swalihi for "Satan"), a master pimp who controls his stable of whores with calculated doses of violence and smack."--Provided by publisher.
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