It doesn’t have to be the dark of a rainy night for it to be noir. It doesn’t have to be shadowy rooms of Venetian blinds. It doesn’t even have to be a femme fatale. Noir is somebody tripping over their own faults, somebody who has an Achilles heel, some kind of greed, or want or desire that leads them down a dark path, from which there is sometimes no return.No one is safe. There’s no place to hide in this collection of twelve stories from the dark side of the American Dream....

The Big Push and Legend of Sir Morleans' Lost PearlsWhen a distinguished London barrister confides in private detective Henry von Stray about the family secrets and legends of a Baroness-revered for her service as a spy on behalf of the Crown during the Great War-von Stray and his trusted companion Professor John Dilpate are forced to leave their comfortable Berkeley Street lodgings and take on what promises to be their most baffling and intriguing case yet.The Case of the ...

Hardboiled. Softboiled. Noir. East Coast. West Coast. And all points in between.Whatever you call them, gumshoe, shamus, Pinkerton, detective, private eye, P.I., shadow, tail, investigator, and wherever you need them, from East to West, North to South. They’re all here.From the hard pavement of Brooklyn, New York, to the mean dusty streets of Carson City. Down to sultry New Orleans and the freak show that’s Venice, CA. From the flim-flammers of Waco, Texas to DC, Las Vegas ...

Crime in high places. Crime in low places. Crime from Coast to Coast.Crime in the Faneuil Hall Marketplace of Boston to the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the Port of Los Angeles. From the wind-swept sails of the New England shoreline to the transitioning Italian-American neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco and the Disney Concert Hall in L.A.Crime is everywhere, from the murky depths of Echo Park Lake and the body dump of the Angeles National Forest, to the clear waters ...

Shamus & Anthony Award Winners Partner in Crime!Mystery lovers beware because in Shamus and Anthony Commit Capers some of today's most prestigious award-winning mystery and suspense authors are quicker than the eye-and the law! The sleight of hand, the second-story black bag job, and the high-stakes heist have never been more cunning, clever, and crookedly outrageous. In Shamus and Anthony these wily masters of mystery aren't just up to their usual baffling bag of artful tricks in ...