Has Donald Lam gone to the dark side?!?From the world-famous creator of Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner – at his death the best-selling American writer of all time – comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency: SHILLS CAN'T CASH CHIPS. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever.

Max Fisher, ehemals erfolgreicher Unternehmer, erfindet sich als Hip-Hop-Crackdealer neu. Angela Petrakos, einst seine Assistentin und Geliebte, geht zurück nach Irland, wo sie sich einem rekordverdächtigen Serienkiller anschließt. Werden sich die Wege von Max und Angela wieder kreuzen? Die bösen Genies, die schon "Flop" geschrieben haben, schieben jetzt eine Achterbahnfahrt voller Spannung und Chaos, voll von bösartigem Witz hinterher. Lesen auf eigene Gefahr! Sagen Sie nicht, wir hätten ...

ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY – A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTERWhen legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at l...

What will a group of monks do when their century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. ...

QUENTIN TARANTINO on NOBODY'S ANGEL: "My favourite fiction novel this year was written by a taxi driver who used to hand it out to his passengers. It's a terrific story and character study of a cabbie in Chicago during a time when a serial killer is robbing and murdering cabbies. Kudos to Hard Case Crime for publishing Mr. Clark's book."TWO KILLERS STALK THE STREETS OF CHICAGO—CAN ONE TAXI DRIVER CORNER THEM BOTH?Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed...

"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific." – Stephen KingA breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrative that moves from 1946 to 1988 to 2014 and back again, CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL establishes Scott Von Doviak as a storyteller of the first order.A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years later, the last surviving thief gets out of jail and ...

"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNALTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION.An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it's up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman's life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme ...

From the award-winning author, who Stephen King called "a master of the short story" comes this unforgettable 20th-anniversary celebration of Hard Case Crime.Taking you from Brazil at Carnival to Times Square at midnight and from Tijuana, Mexico to ancient China, exploring the dark heart of crime in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, and Graham Greene.CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME – 20 UNFORGETTABLE STOR...

HELP I AM BEING HELD PRISONER is Donald E. Westlake at his funniest and his most ingenious, a rediscovered crime classic from the Grand Master returning to stores for the first time in three decades.JAILED FOR A JOKEIt isn't easy going to jail for being a practical joker. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters – so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile ...

Wenn du einen Killer engagierst, nimm keinen Psychopathen! Dies ist nur eine der bitteren Lektionen, die der skrupellose Geschäftsmann Max Fisher lernen muss, als er den ehemaligen IRA-Mann Dillon auf seine verhasste Gattin ansetzt. Was er nicht weiß: Seine unwiderstehliche Geliebte steckt mit dem draufgängerischen Profi killer unter einer Decke. Jeder versucht den anderen auszuspielen, am Ende kämpfen alle in dieser brutalen Komödie nur noch ums nackte Überleben ...

Die gute Nachricht: Max Fisher und Angela Petrakos sind zurück! Die schlechte: Der eine wurde von der New Yorker Polizei wegen Drogenhandels eingebuchtet, der anderen gelang nach einem brutalen Mord nur knapp die Flucht aus dem Land. Jetzt müssen sie feststellen, dass Gesetzesbruch nur wenig Spaß macht. Max schmort in einer Zelle im berüchtigten Attica, Angela versauert im uralten Knast auf der griechischen Insel Lesbos ... Soll das wirklich das Ende sein?

She was every man’s dream—and one man’s nightmare. Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover—and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay …