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2024
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- Brown, Fredric, The Complete Ed & Am Hunter Mysteries (Ed & Am Hunter) | Buy this book
Deluxe two-volume set collecting all the novels and short stories. Edited by Stephen Haffner, with an intro by Jack Seabrook and original cover art by Lynton Parmar-Hemsley.
January 2024 Collections & Anthologies
- Rosten, Leo, The Dark Corner/Sleep, My Love (Bradford Galt/non-P.I.)
The inspiration for two classic noirs, finally in print again.
2023
December 2023 Collections & Anthologies
November 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Burbara, Rawya Jarjoura, editor, East Jerusalem Noir (Akashic noir) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Eitan, Maayan, editor, West Jerusalem Noir (Akashic noir) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Hockensmith, Steven, Partners In Crime (Old Red & Big Red Amlingmeyer) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Five Holmes on the Range short stories.
October 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Dent, Lester, Six White Horses: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 3 (Click Rush) | Buy this book
- Goldberg, Lee, Crown Vic (1: Ray Boyd) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Phillips, Gary, The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Seventeen blasts of pure pulp from the master, from noir to sci-fi to WTF?: superheroes, Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen-sucking bombs, undercover space rangers, aliens occupying Los Angeles (who could tell?), and more mad scientists and evil geniuses than you could fit in a city bus. - Unger, Lisa, & Steph Cha, editors, The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 (anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
September 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Bracken, Michael, editor, Prohibition Peepers: Private Eyes During the Noble Experiment | Buy this book | Kindle it!
A round of stories set in the Prohibition era, all featuring private eyes of one kind or another, with contributions from Michael Bracken, Susanna Calkins, David Dean, Jim Doherty, John M. Floyd, Nils Gilbertson, Richard Helms, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Leigh Lundin, Adam Meyer, Penny Mickelbury, Joseph S. Walker, and Stacy Woodson. - Dent, Lester, The Devils Smelled Nice: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 2 (Click Rush) | Buy this book
- Oates, Joyce Carol, editor, A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
I’m not even sure of it’s even noir or even crime in some cases, and I don’t think there’s a P.I. in the bunch, but these stories are shocking, disturbing and frightening. A perfect gift for that Incel nephew of yours. - Towles, Amor, & Otto Penzler, editors, The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- Womack, Steven, | Kindle it!
August 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Lansdale, Joe R., Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Fiction of Joe R. Lansdale (non-P.I.) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
What? No Hap? No Leonard? - Osborn, Richard A., Peoria Nights (Nick Stihl) | Buy the book | Kindle it!
- West, Holly, editor, Killin’ Time in San Diego (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
The official collection for Bouchercon 2023, featuring San Diego-set new stories by C.J. Box, Naomi Hirahara, Ann Cleeves, Mary Keenan, C.W. Blackwell, J.R. Sanders, John M. Floyd, Kathy A. Norris, Kathleen L. Asay, L.H. Dillman, Richie Narvaez, Wesley Browne, Désirée Zamorano, James Thorpe, Kim Keeline, Victoria Weisfeld, Anne-Marie Campbell, Jennifer Berg, Tim P. Walker, and Emilya Naymark.
July 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Ballard, W.T., | Buy this book
- Brocklebank, Katherine, White Talons: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Tex of the Border Service (non-P.I.)| Buy this book
Brocklebank was one of handful of women writers to crack the Black Mask market, and her serialized novel White Talons, featuring a hard-charging woman border guard, was the only series in that iconic pulp’s history to feature a female lead character. Includes two other hard-boiled detective stories from the author.
Champion, D.L., Murder Pays 7 to 1: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Rex Sackler, Vol. 2 (Rex Sackler)| Buy this book - Constiner, Merle, The Hound with the Golden Eye: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock, Vol. 2 (LutherMcGavock)| Buy this book
- Coyle, Matt, Naomi Hirahara, & Tammy Kaehler, editors, Crime Under the Sun (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
From the San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime come fifteen stories casting shadows on the fun, fun, myth of SoCal life. - Dent, Lester, Talking Toad: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 1 (Click Rush) | Buy this book
- Hammett, Dashiell, Zigzags of Treachery: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Continental Op, Vol. 1 (The Continental Op) | Buy this book
Collects the first ten stories, as well as an all-new introduction by Bob Byrne. - Torrey, Roger, The Case-Hardened Samaritan: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Dal Prentice, Vol. (non-P.I.) | Buy this book
May 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Block, Lawrence, The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men’s Adventure Magazines| Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Helms, Richard, Paper Walls/Glass Houses (short story collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Phillips, Gary, editor, Get Up Offa That Thing: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of James Brown (collection)| Buy this book | Kindle it!
April 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Collins, Max Allan, Mad Money (Nolan) (r) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Collects the novels Spree and Mourn the Living.
March 2023 Collections & Anthologies
January 2023 Collections & Anthologies
- Block, Lawrence (editor), Playing Games (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Oh, the games people play now… Gar Anthony Haywood, S.A. Cosby, David Morrell, Patricia Abbott, Joe R. Lansdale, Charles Ardai, Jeffery Deaver, Robert Silverberg and the dude himself all ante up with tales of those who spin the wheel, roll the dice, and play the games, be it poker or Candyland.
2022
December 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Kinmman, Gay Toltl, & Andrew McAleer, editors, Edgar & Shamus Go Golden | Buy this book | Kindle it!
There’s a lot of talk about mystery’s “Golden Age,’ and a lot of praise for Christie, Crofts, Sayers, Van Dine and all those muckety-mucks in the introduction, but this collection by assorted Edgar and Shamus winners actually leans heavily towards the harder-boiled end of the street, with contributions by assorted P.I. writers, including P.J. Parrish, John Floyd, Kristen Lepionka, Brendan DuBois, Lori Armstrong, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera and O’Neil De Noux, the last three all receiving Shamus noms for their stories in this one.
November 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Chambers, Whitman, The Duchess Pulls a Fast One: The Complete Cases of The Duchess (Katie “The duchess” Blayne) | Buy this book
- Daly, Carroll John, Lady of Death: The Complete Cases of Mr. Strang, Volume 1 (Mr. Strang) | Buy this book
- Footner, Hulbert, The Under Dogs: The Complete Cases of Madame Storey, Volume 3 (Madame Storey) | Buy this book
Contains “The Steerers” and “The Under Dogs,” along with the original pulp illustrations and an intro by Robert Sampson. - Hammett, Dashiell, The Continental Op (The Continental Op) | Buy the collection
Illustrated edition of the first five Continental OP short stories, featuring ten drop-dead gorgeous art plates by John K. Snyder. - Phillips, Gary, & Gar Anthony Haywood, editors, Witnesses for the Dead (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
What if you saw what they saw? New stories by Christopher Chambers, Richie Narvaez, Gary Phillips, Sarah M. Chen, Cara Black, Tod Goldberg, SJ Rozan, and more. - Walter, Jess, editor, The Best American Mystery & Suspense Stories (anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- Ware, Edward Parrish, The Fifth Gate: The Complete Cases of Tug Norton, Volume 1 (Tug Norton) | Buy this book
October 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Bellis, Anders, The el Toro Problem and Other Stories (1: Larry Carmody) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Jakubowski, Maxim, editor, Black is the Night (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
A solid collection of new stories inspired by noir master Cornell Woolrich, with contributions by Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Kim Newman, Martin Edwards, Donna Moore, James Grady, Barry N. Malzberg, James Sallis, Charles Ardai, Bill Pronzini, Maxim Jakubowski,
O’Neil De Noux, William Boyle and more.
September 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Christie, Agatha, Marple: Twelve New Stories (collection; non-P.I.) | Kindle it!
All new stories from Naomi Alderman Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Val McDermid, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware and others. - Edwards, Martin, (editor), Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles (anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Books. As motive. As maguffin. As weapon. Sixteen nefarious nuggets from the Golden Age of British Crime, perfect for savoring on a cold winter’s night, perhaps accompanied by a hot cuppa. Among the suspects? Nicholas Blake, G.D.H. Cole and M. Cole, A.A. Milne, Julian Symons, Ngaio Marsh, E.C. Bentley, Christianna Brand and John Creasey all contribute bibliographic mayhem (there are even a few private detective tales) that will have you turning the pages… and looking over your shoulder. - Paretsky, Sara, editor, The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- Phillips, Gary, editor, South Central Noir (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Featuring all-new stories by Gar Anthony Haywood, Naomi Hirahara, Roberto Lovato, Penny Mickelbury, Gary Phillips, Jeri Westerson, Steph Cha and others.
June 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Cudmore, Libby, & Art Taylor, editors, Lawyers, Guns & Money (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
The shit has hit the fan. Short stories inspired by the music of Warren Zevon, by the likes of excitable boys & girls such as William Boyle, Dana Cameron, Libby Cudmore, Hilary Davidson, Paul D. Marks, Josh Pachter, Charles Salzberg, Laura Ellen Scott, Alex Segura, Kevin Burton Smith (who?) and Brian Thornton. - Gumpaw, Felix, Pup Detectives: The Graphic Novel Collection #2 (Rider Woofson & The P.I. Pack; collection) | Buy this book
- Jakubowski, Maxim, editor, The Book of Extraordinary Femme Fatale Stories: The Best New Original Stories of the Genre Featuring Female Villains, Detectives, and Other Mysterious Women (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Contributors include Claude Lalumière, O’Neil De Noux, Bev Vincent, Robert Lopresti and Joseph S. Walker. - Quinn, Spencer, Short Tails: Chet and Bernie Short Stories (Chet and Bernie) | Kindle it!
May 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Butcher, Jim, & Kerrie Hughes, editors, Heroic Hearts (sci-fi anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Includes a new Harry Dresden tale. - Greenwood, Kerry, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions (Phryne Fisher) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Fifteen short stories featuring the sassy Aussie sleuth, including four new ones. - Niles, Steve, Criminal Macabre (collection; Cal McDonald) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Collects the prose stories featuring Steve Niles’s ghost-and-monster-busting private eye: “Savage Membrane;” “Guns, Drugs, and Monsters,” “Dial M for Monster” and “All My Bloody Things,” plus two new stories: “The Dead Son,” “Out of Water” and an introduction by horror legend John Carpenter. (May 2022) - Powell, William Dylan/Vilharo, Will, Dixon Guidry Gets Lost/All Souls are Final (1: Roughneck Mike/1: Vic Valentine) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Spillane, Mickey, Stand Up and Die!: A Crime Fiction Collection (collection) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Ten hard to find tales, including a Mike Hammer story. With an intro by Max Allan Collins (of course). - Swanson, Cynthis, editor, Denver Noir (Akashic noir) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
April 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Bracken, Michael, editor, Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties (anthology) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Tune in and turn on with this trippy collection of original stories by the likes of Jack Bates, C.W. Blackwell, Michael Bracken, N.M. Cedeño, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Adam Meyer, Tom Milani, Neil S. Plakcy, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Thielman, Grant Tracey, Mark Troy, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Robb White. - Daly, Carroll John, Unremembered Murder: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Vol. 7 (Race Williams) | Buy this book
16 from 1944–55, as Daly closed out his most popular series with a bang, plus an all-new intro by Professor Brooks E. Hefner of James Madison University. - Rozan, S.J.,editor, Crime Hits Home (MWA anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
The latest from the Mystery Writers of America includes new stories from Naomi Hirahara, Sara Paretsky, Gary Phillips, Walter Mosley and S.J. Rozan, among others.
March 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Lansdale, Joe R., Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap & Leonard (Hap & Leonard) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Ralston, Gilbert, The Dakota Saga: All Five Novels (Clay Dakota) | Kindle it!
January 2022 Collections & Anthologies
- Finnegan, Robert, The Lying Ladies/The Bandaged Nude/Many a Monster (Dan Banion) (r) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Stark House collection with all three novels, with an intro by Tom Cantrell. - Lippman, Laura, Seasonal Work (collection) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
Rounds up some of her latest storeies, including a Tess Monaghan story and a brand new tale.
