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.
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August 2026 Collections & Anthologies
Lavielle, Charles-Henri, editor, Toulouse Noir (Akashic) | Buy this book| Kindle it! All new stories fromAl Baylac, Maïté Bernard, Tanella Boni, Manu Causse, Gaspard Chauvelot, Pascal Dessaint, Francis Émourgeon, Sarah Grall, Adeline Grand-Clément, Nicolas Rouillé, Hafid Saïdi, & Benoît Séverac. Zut!
Yanique, Tiphanie & Richard George, editors, Virgin Islands Noir(Akashic) | Buy this book| Kindle it! New stories of both British and American Virgin noir, written by Tiphanie Yanique, Richard Georges, Johanna Gibson, Eugenia O’Neal, Celeste Rita Baker, Nisha Khiani Savara, Sophia Aubin, Cadwell Turnbull, Rea Vanterpool, Vincent Omni, Traci O’Dea, Tobias S. Buckell, Gillian Royes, Hadiya Sewer, & Raven Phillips.
April 2026 Collections & Anthologies
Tepperman, Emile, The Masked Marksman #5: Curtain Call for the Corpse (Ed Race) | Buy this book
March 2026 Collections & Anthologies
Walker, Joseph S., Crime Scenes| Buy this book| Kindle it! Twenty shotgun blasts of crime, including four featuring unlicensed PI Tim Chadwick.
February 2026 Collections & Anthologies
Shepphird, John, editor, Tennis Noir: A Crime Fiction Anthology | Buy this book | Kindle it! The first in a promised series of sports-themed anthologies, this one features stories by Gary Phillips, Scott Adleberg, Richard Brewer, Colin Campbell, Jen Conley, Travis Richardson, Linda Sands, Ann Shepphird, John Shepphird, Jason Starr and more.
January 2026 Collections & Anthologies
Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon (1: Sam Spade) (r) | Buy this book|Read about it! A labour of love and respect, with twenty-two scene-setting black and white photographs from modern-day San Francisco, and two two linked short stories by PI writer Mark Coggins.
Coyle, Matt, & Michael Bracken, editors, The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025| Buy this book | Kindle it! Honouring the best P.I. fiction of the year, from the likes of Tom Andes, Pete Barnstrom, Robert J. Binney, Alec Cizak, Libby Cudmore, O’Neil De Noux, Luke Deckard, BV Lawson, Andrew McAleer, Ron Miller, Bruce W. Most, Marcia Muller, Twist Phelan, Neil S. Plakcy, William Dylan Powell, M.E. Proctor, Mark Thielman, Vicki Weisfeld, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Sam Wiebe, plus an overview of the Shamus Game by some yegg named Smith.
Daly, Carroll John, The Legion of the Living Dead: The Complete Cases, Vol. 2 (Dr. Strang) | Buy this book
Davis, Frederick C., The Complete Cases of Bill Brent, Vol. 4 (Bill Brent) | Buy this book
Sale, Richard, Murder on the Film: The Complete Cases of Candid Jones, Vol. 1 (Candid Jones) | Buy this book
Von Stray’s Crimestalker Casebook (chapbook) | Kindle it! New short shorts by Barb Goffman, Libby Cudmore, Stephen D. Rogers, Michael Bracken, John M. Floyd and more. A perfect stocking stuffer.
Bellem, Robert Leslie, & W.T. Ballard, Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series, Vol. 6 (Jim Anthony)
Five complete novels! Yowsah!
Bruen, Ken, & Jason Starr, Supermax: The Max & Angela Trilogy (non-PI) | Buy this book| Kindle it!
Gulli, Andrew F., & Lamia J.; editors, Best of The Strand Magazine | Buy this book | Buy the audio| Kindle it! Highlights from the revived mystery mag, marking “25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction.” Includes stories from Jo Nesbø, Tennessee Williams, Ray Bradbury, John Mortimer, Shirley Jackson, Ruth Ware, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffery Deaver, James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, R. L. Stine, David Baldacci, Tess Gerritsen, Kathy Reichs, Alexander McCall Smith and more.
Worts, George F., The Lost Punch: The Complete Cases of Gillian Hazeltine, Vol. 4 (Gillian Hazeltine)
October 2025 Collections & Anthologies
Kreppel, Jonas, The Adventures of Max Spitzkopf (Max Spitzkopf)| Buy this book| Kindle it! Tales if the “Yiddish Sherlock Holmes,” finally in English!
Ard, William, Shakedown/The Blonde and Johnny Malloy (r) | Buy this book| Kindle it! Another Stark House twofer, this one features PI Johnny Stevens in one, and the other’s about an ex-con in a jam.
Bruns, Don, editor, Bat Out of Hell (anthology) | Buy this book | Buy the audio| Kindle it! Yet another in the seemingly endless stream of music-themed anthologies, this one’s allegedly inspired by the “classic” Meatloaf album. Contributors include Heather Graham, Charles Todd, a couple of Bruns, and Andrew Childs, with a new Jack Reacher tale. Hot patootie!
Burnett, W.R., The Loop/Man with a Thousand Enemies (1: Jimmy Devore) | Buy this book | Kindle it! A Stark House twofer, with two previously unpublished novels by one of the masters!
Gault, William Campbell, Hot-House Homicide: The Complete Black Mask Cases (Mortimer Jones) | Buy this book Collects all the short stories.
Lacy, Deborah, editor, The Most Dangerous Game (anthology)| Buy this book | Kindle it! Includes quickies by Heather Graham, P.M. Raymond, Stephen M. Pierce, JD Allen, Robert Lopresti and a new Scott Drayco by B.V. Lawson.
Lawrence, John, Body of Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Broadway Squad (non-PI) |Buy this book These cops ain’t afraid of getting their hands dirty — or anything else.
Reeves, Robert, The Cat With a Headache: The Complete Black Mask Cases, Volume 3 (Cellini Smith) |Buy this book
Deis, Bob, & Bill Cunningham, editors, The Men’s Adventure Quarterly #12: The Private Eyes Issue (magazine) | Buy this book If you’re not aware of this gorgeous, full-color quarterly love letter to Men’s Adventure Magazines, this is the issue to get. It’s got PI stories from Frank Kane, G.G. Fickling and others, plus articles on TV eyes, sci-fi eyes, and even a selection of PI-related cartoons by pin-up artist Pete Wyma. Contrubutors include James Reasoner, Paul Bishop and David Avallone.
Elliott, Bruce, Do You Know Me? & Other Aberrations (Stark House noir) | Buy this book
April 2025 Collections & Anthologies
Bracken, Michael, editor, Sleuths Just Wanna Have Fun (anthology)| Buy this book | Kindle it! Private eyes in the materialistic eighties, with stories by the Bracken Bunch, including Richard Helms, Elizabeth Elwood, John M. Floyd, , Kathleen Marple Kalb, Sandra Murphy, Laura Oles, Alan Orloff, William Dylan Powell, Joseph S. Walker, and Andrew Welsh-Huggins.
Burgess, Charles L., Backfire/Never Kill a Cop & Other True Crime Stories| Buy this book A novel, a short story, and 13 true crime stories from the pulp era.
Kantner, Rob, Big Trouble Town (collection) | Kindle it! Crime, suspense horror, romance stories published by the creator of Ben Perkins between 1982 and 2005.
