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xxiii, 223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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Eddie Muller -- host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur -- takes film buffs and drinks enthusiasts alike on a spirited tour through the "dark city" of film noir in this stylish book packed with equal parts great cocktail recipes and noir lore.
3) Austin noir
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289 pages ; 21 cm.
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Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimensions Featuring brand-new stories Gabino Iglesias, Ace Atkins, Amanda Moore, Jeff Abbott, Scott Montgomery, Richard Z. Santos, Alexandra Burt, Lee Thomas, Miriam Kuznets, Jacob Grovey, Chaitali Sen, Molly Odintz, Amy Gentry, and Andrew Hilbert. From the editors' "You've probably heard of Austin. You may have been here for South by Southwest. Your best friend...
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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
5) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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Finde den Tod, bevor er dich findet: Die Jagd nach einem Serienmörder führt die Ermittler Gray und Sophia nicht nur zur tot geglaubten Sekte Fiordia, sondern auch tief in ihre eigenen psychischen Verstrickungen. Dabei merken sie nach und nach, wie viel die Morde mit ihnen selbst zu tun haben. Und machen die schmerzhafte Erfahrung: Du kannst die Gegenwart so lange ignorieren, bis sie dich als Vergangenheit einholt.
7) Vampyr
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Nachtkommissar Gideon Voss untersucht widerwillig einen tödlichen Unfall und stolpert dabei über blutsaugende Okkultisten, hartnäckige Ermittlerkollegen und Gefühle für die Hauptverdächtige, die ihn mit tiefschwarzen Augen und angefeilten Eckzähnen manipuliert.
8) Yesteryear
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Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again! Who was the mind behind The Lone Ranger? It's 1930s Buffalo, and the Great Depression rages. Playwright Fran Striker needs to write the pilot for a new radio show but, first, he must overcome writer's block, defeat a curse, foil a plot to assassinate FDR, and recover stolen diamond...
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Herz der Finsternis: Auf der nächtlich an der Themsemündung in Gravesend stillliegenden Seeyacht Nellie erzählt der ehemalige Seemann Marlow seinen vier Freunden, die das Band der See eint, eine Episode aus seinem Leben. Er beschreibt seine Sehnsucht, die letzten weißen Flecken des Globus kennenzulernen, und wie sie nach einigen Mühen dazu führte, dass er Flusskapitän wurde.
Lord Jim: Anstoß zu dem Roman gab die dramatische Geschichte...
10) Dannie
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No matter what the logical cost, follow your dreams. Dannie had a rough start. She was born into wealth, however, she had no say in her life. She broke thru the mold and slowly went after her dream. Dreams don't die unless you let them.
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Wu Boqiang, who was from a low-income family, traveled to Tokyo, Japan to pursue his studies. However, a number of issues developed as a result of the green mold on the ham he brought. The butler first said that the ham shouldn't have been hung on the wall and then chastised him for not hanging the ham in the toilet. Boqiang didn't earn the butler's respect until his friend Zichen paid him a visit and invited the butler to eat the ham. He still chose...
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¿Dónde esta el mal? ¿En una persona, una circunstancia, una acción? ¿O bien es algo difuso e impalpable como una polvadera, tan fría y silenciosa que podrían pasar años antes de percatarnos de su presencia? Podríamos no ver cómo se acumula en torno a nosotros, sino encontrarla de improviso en nuestra mesa, murmurándonos tonterias al oído, observándonos burlona desde el espejo».
¿Es oportuno confesar mi interés por los relatos de...
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Identical twins Sylvie and Betty Allard loathe each other. They loathe the outside world more. Estranged for ten years, their worlds collide. A shared competitive streak leads them to derail each other as they embark on a killing spree of celebs and wannabes to make the world a better place. As the net and the Met closes in on them, the twins might need to work together, for the first time ever. A crime noir literary romp.
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A terrible crime occurs in Elect H. Mouse State Judge.
Two young girl are abducted and held hostage by a band of religious fanatics. The girls' anxious father, a politician on the eve of an important election, has reasons of his own not to go to the police, so he hires a pair of shady private eyes to investigate. All the elements of a classic noir-except that the kidnapped girls are mice, the abductors are Sunshine Family dolls, and the detectives...
15) Lumberjack
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One of the Twelve Best Indie Horror Books of 2023 - The Lineup
Nebraska city, 1901.
There's a curse on Arbor Lodge-an elusive demon reclaiming the illustrious home in the name of the prairie-and its owner,
J. Sterling Morton, proud statesman, is desperate.
It couldn't be more fortuitous for lumberjack Neville, whose greatest desire is to prove himself a true man to the world.
Morton offers respect, security, pride, even the father...
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In this short story entitled Take the apple, Adam!, an idea wrapped around the tragic condition of humanity is brought before the readers. Through the roller coaster of the storyline, and the vivid descriptions and analogies, the readers are invited to follow and feel together with the characters, finding at least one familiar aspect of their own life experiences.Every reader can find his or her own message in the story, having a lot of thoughts and...
17) One More Kill
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"Fans of Lawrence Block's Keller stories are going to love One More Kill. I certainly did. Matt Hughes kept me up all night, turning pages."-George R.R. MartinHe was a trained killer, an orphaned kid who rose from raw recruit to the rank of major in the US Army Rangers. He was looking forward to retiring at the end of a thirty-year hitch, but when he developed a low-grade form of leukemia, the Army pushed him out and left him feeling alone and useless...
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En una ciudad de provincias durante la posguerra española, un camarero de pasado oscuro decide chantajear al jefe local de Falange. Lo que no imagina es lo que esa extorsión provocará en un lugar donde todos sospechan de todos y donde la traición y la venganza están a la orden del día. La violencia y la fatalidad se dan la mano en Los días de mercurio, en la que Alexis Ravelo vuelve a mostrarnos lo peor del ser humano en una novela dura, rápida...
19) Stark: A Novel
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Ex-con. Author. Actor. Legend. Edward Bunker is one of the acknowledged masters of crime fiction. Written in the late 1960's and discovered after Bunker's death in 2005, Stark is his first and perhaps his most explosive novel ever.
1962. Oceanview, California. The girls are beautiful. The dope is cheap. The squares here are ripe for the plucking-easy money for a man with a plan. Ernie Stark is a hophead and a grifter out to make a big score. If he...
20) Boxcars
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What is the secret Adam Goodman carriesin his heart? A return to the home where he grew up means running into the ghosts of the past. Memories of adventures, growing up and getting away from a small town life he could never forget. Or forgve.
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