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Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
144 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There isn't a scintilla of innocence in this masterpiece of Italian noir . . . [Carlotto's] version of hardboiled crime is criminal all the way." -The Globe and Mail
Giorgio Pellegrini is wanted in Italy for a series of crimes linked to political extremism. He has been hiding out in Central America, half-heartedly lending a hand to a group of leftwing militants engaged in a bloody civil war. After the Comandante orders the assassination of his...
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Language
English
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Description
"A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of twenty million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen, the narrator and former lawyer, finds himself at first just along for the money. Eventually, as bonds deepen among the conspirators, Glen too discovers he has...
Author
Publisher
Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
℗2005
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (5 hr., 19 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Your name's Joe Marlin, but you change it almost as often as you change your shirt. It's David Gavilan when you skip a hotel bill and head for Atlantic City. You left empty-handed, and you need luggage to check into a decent hotel, so you grab two checked bags before the owner turns up to claim them. They're monogrammed L.K.B.-so now your name is Leonard K. Blake.
But you're not the only L.K.B. in Atlantic City. L. Keith Brassard is the owner of...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films.
8) Later
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Acclaimed as one of today's best contemporary noir writers, Massimo Carlotto reaches new heights in the most complex "Alligator" novel to date. Rich with biting humor, humanity, and psychological insight, this is an exemplary noir novel from a crime writer at the top of his game. Marco Buratti, a.k.a. the Alligator, and his partners Max the Memory and Beniamino Rossini have fallen into a trap laid by their worst enemy, Giorgio Pellegrini, a wanted...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 209 pages ; 21cm
Language
English
Description
"Gold Medal books weren't books that won literary awards, or any kind of awards at all. But during the 1950s Gold Medal put out some of the best writers America had to offer, writers like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis, who not only peered into the bleakest reaches of the psyche, but did it with blood-tinged glee. And while many of the Gold Medal pulps have since become acknowledged classics, one of its finest, Elliott Chaze's Black...
11) The drop
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on the screenplay he developed for Twentieth Century Fox from his short story "Animal Rescue," New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong; scheduled for release in Fall 2014, Fox's film of the same title stars James Gandolfini (in his final on-screen performance),...
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Within these pages you'll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow--until something untoward happens. Maybe it's someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control. Maybe they're planning the grift, the grab ... whatever it is to finally put them over. Other times the steps they take are to get themselves or people they care about out from under. You'll find the offerings in these pages...
13) Dry county
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard Weatherford is a successful small-town preacher in the Arkansas Ozarks. He's a proud husband and father of five, and has worked hard to grow his loyal flock with strong sermons and smart community outreach. But while Weatherford is a man of influence and power--and a big force in local politics--he's also a man with secrets. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, Weatherford's world is threatened when he's blackmailed by a former...
14) Drive
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Series
Language
English
Description
""Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the...
15) Three to kill
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
134 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder-and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself.... Manchette-masterful stylist, ironist, and social critic-limns the cramped lives of professionals in a neo-conservative world.
16) Everybody knows
Author
Language
English
Description
After her boss is gunned down at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Mae Pruett, a "black-bag" publicist working at LA's most powerful crisis PR firm protecting the rich and depraved, decides to investigate, running afoul of the whole system.
17) Chourmo
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Language
English
Description
In this second installment of Izzo's legendary Marseilles Trilogy, Fabio Montale has left a police force riddled with corruption, racism, and greed to follow the ancient rhythms of his native town, but his cousin's son has gone missing, and Montale is dragged back onto the mean streets of a violent, crime-infested Marseilles.
18) Sunset Boulevard
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in SUNSET BOULEVARD. Winner of three **Academy Awards**, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of this bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence - a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
19) The third squad
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Belonging to an elite hit squad whose members all fall somewhee along the autism spectrum, Karan is notorious for his ruthless efficiency carrying out the exdtrajudicial assassinations the Indian Police Service is notorious for. Yet Karan's impenetrable façade begins to crack: Should he continue to follow morally suspect orders, or is it time to take matters into his own hands?"--Cover, p. [4]
"A melancholy cop's obsessions are just the tip of...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.
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