Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 17, 1989 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72260-1 (0-679-72260-2)
The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 17, 1989 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72262-5 (0-679-72262-9)
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...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 17, 1989 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72264-9 (0-679-72264-5)
A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grifter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 12, 2000 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-70102-3 (0-375-70102-8)
In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 17, 1989 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72261-8 (0-679-72261-0)
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 17, 1989 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-72263-2 (0-679-72263-7)
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 17, 1989 Price: $12.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72265-6 (0-679-72265-3)
Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novels.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 23, 2012 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-74362-6 (0-307-74362-4)
A rollicking romp of a spy thriller from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World.
Joe Spork fixes clocks. He has turned his back on his father’s legacy as one of London’s flashiest and most powerful gangsters and aims to live a quiet life. Edie Banister retired long ago from her career...
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Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: March 20, 2012 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-59595-9 (0-307-59595-1)
From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 14, 2009 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-38629-8 (0-307-38629-5)
Private detective Michael Kelly returns in a lightning-paced, intricately woven mystery. When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple.
The trail leads to a dead body in an abandoned...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 1, 2011 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-94722-2 (0-307-94722-X)
A hard-hitting, tour-de force tale of the mob and the man who makes sure their rules are the only rules, by the American master of crime George V. Higgins.
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the New England mob. When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Cogan is...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 6, 2012 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-94726-0 (0-307-94726-2)
A riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole.
Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks or picking up hot...
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Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 6, 2012 Price: $9.99 ISBN: 978-0-307-94725-3 (0-307-94725-4)
A riveting, blistering novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins.
Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s nobody’s fool. So when the tenants of his dilapidated buildings refuse...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 17, 1989 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-75998-2 (0-394-75998-2)
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace--their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 28, 1988 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-75999-9 (0-394-75999-0)
Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection—for his own private charity. But the take ($87,000)...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 28, 1988 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-75997-5 (0-394-75997-4)
From the start, nothing goes fright for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones can run. Yet, try as they...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: December 17, 1989 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72040-9 (0-679-72040-5)
For the love of fine and wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson loses his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds and steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a crap table. Luckily for him, Jackson has a savvy twin...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 28, 1988 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-72039-3 (0-679-72039-1)
Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like Sonny, high on hash, found standing over the body with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a street gang called the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Delta On Sale: April 25, 2006 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-33961-2 (0-385-33961-5)
Winner, 2007 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original (awarded by Mystery Writers of America)
From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara’s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction’s most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: May 10, 2005 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72638-5 (0-375-72638-1)
In this riveting insider’s account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy fiction, showing that the real world of espionage is nearly always stranger and more complicated than even the best spy fiction.
Exploring everything from tradecraft and recruitment to bureaucracy...
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Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: February 12, 2013 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-95996-6 (0-307-95996-1)
Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostmanannounces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist.
When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who’s occasionally called Jack. While it’s doubtful that anyone knows...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 12, 2011 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-3077-2 (0-7679-3077-0)
Johannes Cabal returns in this fearfully funny and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue . . . five thousand feet off the ground.
When an attempt to steal a rare book turns sour, Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, finds himself in a foreign prison awaiting execution. A...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics On Sale: July 3, 2012 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-495-1 (1-59017-495-X)
“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet. Then why does the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 330 pages
Publisher: Soho Crime On Sale: February 1, 2009 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-56947-526-3 (1-56947-526-1)
Winner of Australia’s Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel
Emily Tempest has been away from Australia for a long time, but now she’s returned to the Moonlight Downs “mob,” the community where she grew up, half in the Aboriginal world, half in the white. She is looking forward to a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 1, 2013 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-95065-9 (0-307-95065-4)
In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy’s impressive estate. Her father is a regular visitor; her sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; the marriage prospects for Darcy’s sister, Georgiana, are favorable. And preparations for their...
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