Classic Detective Noir

This book looks at the contributions made by the actors and actresses who appeared in film noir, and the directors who made them: Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, John Carradine, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Edmond O’Brien, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, James Cagney, Ida Lupino, John Huston, Delmer Daves, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fritz Lang, Anthony Mann, Phil Karlson, Lewis Allen, Robert Wise, Henry Hathaway, John Brahms, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Jacques Tourneur, Alfred ...

"Corbett's work has garnered him an Edgar© Award nomination, and we can see why." — New York Times A dead man in a schoolyard. A diamond in his mouth. A Mystery that goes back decades. Two rival crime gangs—the Shiners and the Travellers—are already on the brink of war when a body is found hanging from a schoolyard fence. Detective Frank Yakabuski is called in to investigate and immediately identifies the dead man. It’s Agustus Morrissy, leader of the Shiners. In retaliation, the Shiners soon murder a high-ranking Traveller and kidnap the twelve-year-old granddaughter of the ...

Enjoy the great detectives of the Golden Age of classic mysteries in this unique collection of audio whodunits. Newly recorded for this original anthology, the crimes, criminals, and sleuths depicted here set the standard for decades to come, and remain as entertaining today as they were when first published. Fantastic narrators including Simon Prebble, Kate Fenton, Bill Wallace, and Robert Fass breathe new life into these stories.

Every cynical detective who ever walked down a mean street with a gun and a code owes him a debt. Every hard-boiled cop, every burned-out private eye, every noir thriller on the shelf today traces back to one man — a former Pinkerton operative who had actually done the work, and who taught American crime fiction to stop being a parlor puzzle and start drawing blood. Before Dashiell Hammett, the detective story was a genteel game of clues. After him, it was literature. This volume collects the first three novels — written in a furious burst between 1929 and 1930, the books that invented ...

Noir contains three classic thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson’s distinguished career, these page-turning classics are finally on audio for your listening pleasure. Now listeners everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder.

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case...

The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco, and featuring a diverse cast of characters, including a...

This annotated edition of The Maltese Falcon includes: • A 14,000-word critical study, "Detecting the Detective" • On the Flitcraft parable — the strangest scene in crime fiction • On the 1941 film and how it froze the book in amber • A full life of Dashiell Hammett — Pinkerton man to blacklist • A Note on the Texts and the novel's public-domain status The bird is a fake. Everyone lies and dies for it anyway. That is the whole of the world — and the detective is the only one who knows it. In 1930 a former Pinkerton operative named Dashiell Hammett published the novel that ...

This annotated edition of Red Harvest includes: • A critical study of the first hard-boiled novel • On Poisonville — Hammett's Butte, Montana, and the mine wars • How Red Harvest fathered Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars • On the Continental Op, the detective with no name • A note on the 1929 first-edition text and its public-domain status Before Sam Spade, before the falcon, before noir even had a name, there was a nameless detective, a town called Poisonville, and about two dozen corpses. In 1929 Dashiell Hammett published his first novel and invented the hard-boiled crime ...

A private detective, down on his luck. A bus crash in the middle of nowhere. A murderer, hiding in plain sight. When Sydney Cartel investigates a murder, he usually stands on the other side of the police tape. Trying to escape the limelight of his career, he boards a night bus in rural southern Britain. But when the bus loses control and falls into a valley, Sydney and the survivors scramble to find shelter at a local inn by the side of the road. In the dead of night, with a storm preventing anyone from getting in or out, the survivors of the crash prepare for a long stay at the Roadside ...

Se avete amato il libro, impossibile perdere la versione audiolibro di uno dei più famosi romanzi di Agatha Christie: C'è un Cadavere in Biblioteca...

A novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw, a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. Macdonald. Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends...

The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle. The story opens in the silent film era, when white...

A man is found murdered in his locked study. The weapon lies beside his body. The fingerprints point to only one suspect. And the verdict is already waiting. But legendary detective Vincent Gideon knows something is wrong. The crime scene is too perfect. The evidence is too clean. The witnesses are too certain. And when a woman he loves stands accused of murder, Gideon is forced into the most dangerous investigation of his career — a case that reaches into secret rooms, staged deaths, disappearing identities, and a criminal mastermind who has never been caught. Behind the polished walls ...

Hollywood is hell on earth—and Dick Moonlight is about to discover just how deadly it can be. When private investigator Dick Moonlight and his professional Elvis impersonator sidekick, Fat Elvis, discover the severed head of a beautiful blonde beneath the floorboards of an unfinished luxury home, they uncover a nightmare buried beneath the glitter of Hollywood. The trail leads to a husband-and-wife construction team with dreams of becoming filmmakers. But they're not making romantic comedies. They're producing snuff films—and their next production could feature Fat Elvis. With Fat Elvis...

A restaurant full of witnesses. A missing knife. And a murder that refuses to speak loudly. In 1948, The Gilded Ladle is the kind of place people come to be seen—and to forget who they are once the lights dim. White linen. Low music. Perfect timing. Everything in its place. Until the chef is found dead in the pantry. The knife buried in him belongs to the kitchen. The doors are locked. No one has left. Inspector Claire Lawson arrives to a room already telling itself stories. The staff insist on routine. The patrons insist on coincidence. Everyone remembers the night differently—and ...

**A murder. A snowbound train. A web of lies that runs the length of Europe.** When the _Orient Express_ grinds to a halt in a blizzard on its way from Istanbul to Paris, a passenger is found dead in his locked compartment. The door is bolted from the inside. The windows are sealed. And every soul aboard swears they heard nothing. Inspector Lucien Arnaud of the Bureau of International Investigations is dispatched to investigate—an assignment that becomes a descent into deception, politics, and guilt. Among the passengers: a countess, a colonel, a secretary, a smuggler, and a priest. Each ...

Nulla è come sembra, in questa avvincente versione audiolibro di "Se morisse mio marito", uno dei romanzi gialli più riusciti, della celebre Agatha Christie. E pure l'illustrissimo, intelligentissimo e insuperabile Hercule Poirot s'inganna, facendosi ammaliare prima dalle parole della bellissima Jane Wilkinson, e dall'interpretazione migliore della sua carriera, e poi dal candore della giovane Geraldine, e dall'avidità dell'affascinante Carlotta Adams.

Street thug Riko has some serious issues--memories wiped, reputation tanked, girlfriend turned into a tech-fueled zombie. And the only people who can help are the mercenaries who think she screwed them over. In an apathetic society devoid of ethics or regulation, where fusing tech and flesh can...

Ex-mob enforcer-turned-private investigator Isaiah Coleridge pits himself against a rich and powerful foe when he digs into a possible murder and a sketchy real-estate deal worth billions. Ex-majordomo and bodyguard to an industrial tycoon-cum-U.S. senator, Badja Adeyemi is in hiding and shortly...