A suspenseful World War II–era novel from &“the world&’s finest female noir writer . . . [featuring] a resourceful spy heroine&” (Sarah Weinman, Los ...
Dixon Steel is a serial killer who lures young women because he seems like an average, trustworthy guy. He soon finds himself matching wits with his best frien...
Superb Art Deco suspense set in the glamorous world of high society New York from 'An author with a flair for terror' The New Yorker'If you wake up in the night...
Who killed Louie Lepetino?Was it Barby, with her silvery sheen of hair, looking like a top model and acting like a woman madly in love?Or the beautiful Toni, wh...
One of them is the link to Davidian.One of them is holding out . . .Steve Wintress's flight to Los Angeles is forced down in bad weather, and he shares a car in...
One-way ticket to death . . .? 'Hughes is the master we keep turning to' Sara Paretsky'The tension and terror of Dread Journey are such that few will be able to...
Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room. The German girl's mocking voice returns to his mind yet aga...
Griselda and Con Satterlee are spending a second honeymoon in a cottage on Long Beach, and it's not going well. To cap it all, Con picks up a blonde in the Bamb...
It's carnival time in Santa Fe, and three out-of-town visitors are drawn together in the heat, the smells and the colour of the festival . . Sailor, a hood from...
Private First Class Johnnie Brown is on a break in New York, with just two days to spend however he likes before shipping out to fight the Nazis. All he wants t...
Jose Aragon is a ranch hand between jobs. Looking and smelling just like a piece of border-town trash, he's hoping the Chenoweth Hotel, El Paso, will let him in...
Alone in New York City, Lizanne Steffasson comes face to face with reality when her dream of acting on Broadway collapses.Now she just needs to pay her rent. So...
Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to finishJulie Guilles is in trouble....
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stal...
byFredric Brown,Dan Marlowe,Dorothy Hughes,Richard Stark
In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre&’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter...