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On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There’s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that’s just the beginning of … more

My body felt numb. My little world slowly ebbed out of my body to some other beyond. The reality of who I had been, at least the mental part, was exiting with no fanfare or regrets from my body. The alien looked down at me and started to s… more

Previously only available serialized over seven issues of The Armchair Detective magazine, this examination is the single most influential book-length analysis of Dashiell Hammett’s novels. Spanning all sections of his career, the book disc… more

Richard Schickel is a film historian, filmmaker, and film critic. He is the author of thirty-seven books and the director-writer-producer of dozens of films and television documentaries, largely about film makers and movie history. Schickel… more

Thanks to iconic roles in films such as The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart was and is known as a “tough guy.” Yet the more complicated truth about him has, until now, remained out of focus. We have gone thundering past the i… more

Written in the style and tradition of the great pulp-fiction novels, The Maltese Falcon, The big Sleep, and The Postman always rings twice - the stories which were made into the great film noir classics. This is the story of how love proce… more

Previously only available serialized over seven issues of The Armchair Detective magazine, this examination is the single most influential book-length analysis of Dashiell Hammett’s novels. Spanning all sections of his career, the book disc… more

Charlie, a gentleman thief to rival Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, gallivants around Venice in The Good Thief’s Guide to Venice—the next caper in Chris Ewan’s sparkling series. After a particularly bad streak of luck in Vegas, Charlie has… more

Somebody is killing old men in San Francisco. Not just any old men, but a group of former Pinkerton detectives. Disgraced detective and notorious roustabout “Crazy Charlie” Boyle claims they were killed because they helped him ferret out cl… more

“Like most of Valerio’s narrative fiction, ‘The Little Sailor’alchemically combines personal and popular cultural histories; but unlikethe earlier work, this opus resolves the logic and emotion of itsprotagonist’s episodic memory in a linea… more

King’s X is an ongoing SERIES, an epic paranormal thriller, combining the noir suspense of The Maltese Falcon and The X-Files with the high adventure and romance of Braveheart.Each Episode is NOVELLA LENGTH, priced at $0.99, and ends in a … more

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.   Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir.  It was the magazine where the first hardbo… more

Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and punishment, the upheaval of traditional mora… more

When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir is a genre much richer. The authors first… more

Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters—detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants—in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossib… more

When a mysterious relic is stolen from a Madrid museum, people are dying to discover its secrets. Literally.U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca returns from Conspiracy in Kiev to track down the stolen artwork, a small carving called The Pi… more

In 1936 Algiers, a valuable artifact goes missing from a French archeological site and seemingly nobody knows where it has gone. Pierre Rensard, Chief of Police, is suddenly charged with recouping the item in a realm of moral ambiguity wher… more

Thomas C. Foster, acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller How to Read Literature Like a Professor, returns with a hugely entertaining appreciation of twenty-five works of literature that have greatly influenced the American identity. … more

Expanded and revised, this 30th-anniversary edition guides readers over the fog-shrouded hills stalked by Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and other legendary characters created by San Francisco’s most famous mystery writer, Dashiell Hammett…. more

For more than forty years, since the day her illustrious father died, Jo Hammett has kept her silence. Now, for the first time, with uncompromising candor and profound admiration, she tells the story of Dashiell Hammett—Hollywood screenwrit… more