Classic Noir

Charlie Rutland, a womanizing journalist, is found brutally murdered. He worked for a muck-raking gossip magazine and therefore had many enemies. Detective Crow is assigned to Yorkshire where he must eliminate a long list of suspects. And where does the German businessman Conrad Gunther fit in? Mysterious lights at Lockyer Tarn, a homeless man hiding out on the Yorkshire Dales, a stolen Volvo, and a former Gestapo officer are all seemingly linked in some manner. And then the British spy services get involved....

Nine-year-old Jenny Carson is brutally murdered in Kenton Wood on her way from school. Then Charles Lendon is found stabbed to death with a skewer through his heart. He was a ruthless lawyer and something of a womanizer. Jenny's father blamed him for her murder. As the local police struggle, Inspector Crow is called in. Can he connect the two killings? He discovers that several of those closest to Charles Lendon had good reason to hate him: his housekeeper lover, her unstable brother, even the boyfriend of his attractive young colleague Cathy Tennant.

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly installments during 1866. Later, it was published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his "mature" period of writing.

Ian Tregillis's Something More Than Night is a Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler inspired murder mystery set in Thomas Aquinas’s vision of Heaven. It’s a noir detective story starring fallen angels, the heavenly choir, nightclub stigmatics, a priest with a dirty secret, a femme fatale, and the Voice of God.

Der in Prag aufgewachsene Karl Rossmann wird im Alter von sechzehn Jahren von seinen Eltern nach Amerika geschickt. Auf seiner unfreiwilligen Reise durch das Land trifft er Heizer, Bankiers und Senatoren, trunkene Maschinenschlosser, Liftboys, einsame Mädchen, Studenten und Laufburschen. Wie ein Blatt im Wind wird der junge Karl durch alle Gesellschaftsklassen Amerikas geweht, immer abwärts geht die Reise.

"L'ho scarabocchiato col sangue - la tua vita dipende dal restare nascosto." "Forse il vocabolo fiction trova qui una delle massime espressioni proprio perché la genialità di Edgar Allan Poe, lo scrittore, sta nell'affidare al giovane Arthur Gordon Pym il resoconto di una vicenda che il signor Arthur Gordon Pym affida al signor Edgar Allan Poe (quello dentro il romanzo) per renderla, da un certo punto in avanti, credibile al grande pubblico. […]

La Perle Noire de Victorien Sardou est une œuvre captivante qui mêle mystère, romance et drame dans un décor somptueux de l'Europe du XIXe siècle. Ce récit enchanteur tourne autour d'une perle noire mystérieuse, un symbole de richesse et de secrets cachés, qui devient le pivot d'intrigues complexes et de relations tumultueuses. À travers des personnages profondément humains et des rebondissements inattendus, Sardou explore des thèmes intemporels tels que la cupidité, l’amour et la quête de vérité.

When a disheartened and broke Mr. Cole boards a ship, the Lady Jermyn, in Australia for a return to England, he little knows what is in store for him. Love, disaster and loss enfold him on the journey home. Once there he is followed, threatened and befriended. A strange series of events make him doubt his sanity before he discovers the secret of the Lady Jermyn and what really happened.

Charles Marlow is a steamboat captain on the River Thames near Gravesend, England. He and his crew work for an ivory trading company. One day he recounts to his fellow crew the story of his life and how he became a captain for the steamboat company. The focus of his story involves the journey Marlow undertook to the outer reaches of the company's operations. Here he tells of his wild encounters with Mr. Kurtz, a man with a great reputation for bringing in the most ivory for the company.

Questo thriller ci porta in una storia di spionaggio ambientata sulla costa del Norfolk, e alla vigilia della grande guerra. Il libro fu infatti scritto nel 1914. Come negli altri romanzi dell'autore, il noir è sempre accompagnato da tocchi di rosa, e non è mai truce o angosciante.

Questo autore di thriller racconta di un'investigatrice che, non contenta di rispondere alla piccola posta di una rivista femminile, entra in contatto con la malavita londinese, forse spinta da motivi sentimentali. Ma non aspettatevi un romanzetto giallorosa, anche se potreste essere ingannati dal tono brillante: il noir è in agguato dietro ad ogni strada, come può capitare a Londra.

To Florence Hackett and her daughters Elinor and Louisa, Richard Baurie, a handsome young bookstore clerk and aspiring poet, seems a little odd but harmless enough. With his amusing conversation and his eager-to-please attitude, Richard works his way into the Hacketts' confidence until he is almost one of the family. When he suggests they rent Wisteria Cottage, a charming seaside residence, it seems to promise a summer of pleasant companionship and fun.

The 1960s' toughest, brainiest, sexiest, and most compassionate spy, is back in print! Meet McHugh America's#1 Secret Agent a combination of Mickey Spillaine's Mike Hammer and Ian Flemming's James Bond. In this first book in the series, McHugh takes a leave of absence from his spy work to help out his lover's sister who has found a dead Mafioso in her apartment, her boyfriend missing, and half San Francisco's mobsters after her.

Dave and Jill Wade come to Pennsylvania, the ink still wet on their marriage license, expecting three weeks of lakeside honeymooning bliss. All is lovely until gunshots shatter their first night together. Killers have come for the man in the next cabin, and afterward they decide to silence the happy couple, battering Dave and dragging his virgin bride into the dead man's bedroom. The Wades say nothing to the police, but afterward take a second set of vows: death for the men who ruined their honeymoon.

Questo romanzo viene considerato il primo romanzo giallo della storia, oltre che il migliore, secondo T.S. Eliot. Nel 1987 il critico inglese Keating ha inserito "The Moonstone" nella lista dei 100 migliori gialli letterari. Scritto nel 1868 a puntate è un appassionante romanzo a più voci in cui si narra di un prezioso gioiello andato perso e dell'onore di una ragazza che rischia di essere macchiato.

After he fails to save a stranger from being mauled to death by a bear, a young mercenary is saddled with the baby girl the man died to protect. Now, 16 years later, that young mercenary has grown up to become cynical sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse. When his vacation travels bring him back to that same part of the world, he can't resist trying to discover what has become of the mysterious infant. He finds that the child, now a lovely young teenager named Isadora, is at the center of a complicated web of intrigue.

Twenty years ago, a barmaid in a harbor town fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his fortune. But what truly became of Black Edward Tew remains a mystery, one that has just fallen into the lap of freelance sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse. For years, Eddie has kept his office above Angelina’s tavern, so when Angelina herself asks him to find out what happened to the dashing pirate who stole her heart years ago, he can hardly say no—even though the trail is two decades old. Some say Black Edward and his ship, The Bloody Angel, went to bottom of the sea, taking with it a king’s ransom in treasure.

Frankie Machine (Sinatra), a recovering heroin addict and illegal card dealer, returns home to his squalid neighborhood in Chicago after six months in prison. He is hoping to go straight and find a job as a drummer, but when both his ex-drug pusher, Louie, and his ruthless former employer, Schwiefka, show up, Frankie is in trouble.

Film noir is a genre that reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. Characterized by dark lighting and inspired by crime fiction, it often features characters such as a tough-guy hero, mysterious beauties who may or may not be on the level, and prominent people with crimes to hide.The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) is a beloved film in this exciting genre, and in this audio adaptation you will experience the same thrill, as the characters come alive in your mind as you hear their voices from the original motion picture.

Charles Allston Collins (1828-1873) was the younger brother of the novelist Wilkie Collins, and was married to Charles Dickens's daughter Kate. He is well known both as a painter and a novelist. In The Tête Noire, he describes a racy tale of a commercial traveler and his dog who stayed at a most disreputable French coaching inn, whose landlord would appear to be a cunning criminal, and his young daughter just as wicked.