Browsing: Hard-Boiled Mysteries

One long con could be John Hayden’s ticket to financial freedom–or to the slammerJohn Hayden’s a confidence man gone square.…

“A brilliant thriller” (The New Yorker): Veteran Boston gunrunner Eddie Coyle faces years of jail time… unless he turns in one of his many dangerous clients. “The best crime novel ever written — makes The Maltese Falcon read like Nancy Drew” (Elmore Leonard).

Shell Scott, a not-so-private investigator, has a new type of case; he has to bare it all. But this case…

A must-read from “one of the 20th century’s top scribes” (Library Journal): Between a jewel robbery and a string of murders, Philip Marlowe, a “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times), must unravel a twisted case in this classic work of crime noir.

“As far as I’m concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell…

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! NEW EDITED VERSION Another serious page-turner from Scandinavian Mystery Fiction. Once you start One, Two… He is coming…

It’s Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, but instead of unwrapping presents, deputy coroner Mattie Winston is…

“Violent and action-packed… A dazzling novel” (Publishers Weekly): Private investigator Elvis Cole tackles his toughest case yet when his girlfriend’s young son disappears while under his care. “A rare treat” (The Washington Post Book World) with over 6,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.

H is for Homicide is the eighth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.It was one of those…

LA private eye Elvis Cole faces down Little Tokyo’s notorious yakuza in this hard-boiled mystery from a #1 New York Times bestselling author. “Intelligent, perceptive, hard, clean” (James Ellroy), with over 2,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads.