Noir Anthology

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Lors de l'anniversaire de sa fille Léa, Mathilde reçoit par drone un colis contenant du chocolat, denrée devenue rare. Sa belle-sœur Juliette, avec qui elle ne s'entend pas, soupçonne un lien avec l'arrestation de son fils Bastien, qui avait caché une famille de réfugiés. Juliette accuse Mathilde d'avoir dénoncé Bastien et le soir même, Léa meurt empoisonnée.

Detective Frank "Giddy" Geddy usually gets his man, and sometimes the girl, too. This isn't one of those times. Ybor City is where the cool people of Tampa go to cut loose and have fun. Getting in to the party is never the problem. Getting out of it sometimes is. In Ybor, you never know what or who you will run into. Between the seedy clubs and bars, in shady back alleys, and at the cigar and tattoo shops - something is for sale on every corner, and there is always trouble within stumbling distance.

Violence, love, and a torrent of blood. A man wakes in a grimy hotel to find his marriage has ended but not in divorce. An orphan discovers he has a sister and a grisly family secret. And the loss of an infant son drives a man back to his brutal, bad ways. From the Manhattan's Lower East Side to the west coast of Africa, the seven noir stories in this riveting collection cut to the core of what makes us human - and what makes us killers.

Did a spoiled rich girl die in a plane crash, or is she hiding with her homicidal lover in the Florida Keys? Whose body is that in the wreckage? Who put it there?

Hardboiled near-future noir. A missing kid, a pretty woman, a shady politician, the usual...in the meantime, Boston is sinking and parking still sucks.

A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare...

"We must all hang together," Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said to his revolutionary peers, "or we will assuredly all hang separately." This is a sentiment that's even more appropriate, and more urgent, when you're lost between the stars in a crippled and out-of-control ship, your...

This audiobook contains the following Cooper short stories: 351 - "Not What It Seems"; 352 - "Bingo"; 353 - "Way Back When"; and more....

Hezekiel Kant, Privatdetektiv (mit dem schönsten Vornamen, den je ein Detektiv hatte) und charmanter Antiheld, wird beauftragt, die Großhandelskette SPUMEX unter die Lupe zu nehmen - wird dort mit Drogen, gepantschten Weinen oder doch nur mit Gemüse Geld gemacht? -, und da er den Vorschuss bereits vor seiner Zusage verzockt hat und die Tochter des Auftraggebers scheinbar entführt wurde, lässt er sich auf das gefährliche Spiel ein.

Retrouvez dans chacune de ces nouvelles l'humour en coup de poing, la fantaisie verbale, l'imagination drolatique et le goût du canular qui ont fait la célébrité de Boris Vian.

The Wrong End of a Gun is a modern day noir mystery short by bestselling novelist R. Barri Flowers. When a man meets a beautiful blonde woman, his dream turns into a nightmare in which there may be no escape.

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Lola Stefani est une jeune mannequin retenue prisonnière depuis 3 mois par un homme qui la force à se nourrir. Pesée régulièrement, elle souffre de se sentir prendre du poids. Attachée à son lit, elle se remémore ses parents, ses débuts de mannequin et sa perte de poids ayant entraîné l'admiration de son amie Giulia, morte en essayant de lui ressembler. Sa captivité a-t-elle un lien avec cet événement ?

Vous n'en ferez qu'une bouchée ! Léa est une enfant de 12 ans à la situation familiale compliquée : sa mère n'a pas grand attachement pour elle et son père a passé les trois dernières années à l'hôpital en raison de troubles mentaux. Décrit comme imprévisible par sa mère, qui craint qu'il se montre violent, Léa décide tout de même de passer une journée avec lui. Pour se préparer, elle écrit son testament.

La segunda publicación de Hugo Burel se dio en forma de libro de cuentos. En ellos, el autor siembra los que serán los rasgos sempiternos de su literatura venidera: su gusto por la prosa escueta, certera y afilada; sus tramas que se mueven entre los mimbres de la intriga y la novela negra, sus personajes de profundo perfil psicológico y sus alegorías sobre el Uruguay contemporáneo al que tanto ama aunque sea capaz de ver sus defectos diarios y sus contradicciones.

Nell'opera di Scerbanenco - il padre indiscusso del noir italiano e il creatore di Duca Lamberti, il detective amaro della "Milano nera" - l'esperienza della guerra e della fuga in Svizzera nel 1943, segnano una svolta. Una perdita dell'innocenza: la sfiducia in quello che egli denomina "il mondo degli dei e dei miti", di ogni concezione dimentica della qualità terrena, "inconsistente" dell'essere umano, prende il sopravvento.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who’s leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Tex’s welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he’s locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend...only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.

Nothing has stirred the world's imagination like the Star Wars "RM" trilogy of films. Now, go beyond the scope of the trilogy, delving into stories that don't end with the credits, and thrill to the further adventures of the wild and wooly characters from the famous Mos Eisley cantina scene in...

The Black Goat is a short story that takes on a contemporary approach of the legend of Van Hunks and the devil. Jan van Hunks is down and out, a functioning alcoholic who is battling a divorce from his wife. One wintry night, he decides to escape the clutches of his studio apartment in the heart of Cape Town and venture out to find the darkest bar he can. He meets a mysterious character along the way who advises him against his journey.

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to".

If Raymond Carver or Charles Bukowski wrote noir and pulp, this would be it.... Minimalist in approach but long on mood and atmosphere, this first entry in The Ladies of Liquor series is a boozy mix of old-school pulp, shadowy noir, and hard-boiled double-crosses. Writer Anthony Venutolo delivers a collection of nearly 50 flash fictions and short stories that splatter into the ear at 90 proof.