Noir Anthology

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

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.

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.

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.

A major casino robbery turns sour when the getaway car breaks down in the desert. The robbers come across a nearby cabin but it is inhabited by an old loner. The three robbers try and hold him hostage, but he escapes. It becomes their biggest mistake.

In a remote spot, Hannigan is burying a body he claims is his dog. A man suddenly emerges from the fog, asking if he can call for help, since he had to quickly escape a nearby house from a jealous husband. The district is tense, since the news warns of an escaped lunatic killer from a mental hospital is on the loose. The two men return to Hannigan’s house and unexpectedly meet a third man in the fog, claiming to be a policeman, whose car broke down. Is one of them the escaped lunatic killer?

A "botched" hit and blackmail turn to revenge and betrayal in this gripping mystery by a master mystery writer.

A starlet's plot to blackmail a film-studio executive results in her murder. Only the "trouble chaser" can clear her volatile lover and solve the crime.

A comic vignette in which a carnival barker's valuable watch gets stolen during an illegal poker game. The local sheriff seems in no hurry to apprehend the thief, until a reward is offered.

A society matron's life is threatened after she engineers the theft of her own priceless jewelry to pay off a gambling debt. Only a debonair connoisseur of crime can save her and recover her gems. For a price.

A Manhattan gumshoe pursues a convict to St. Louis, where he gets mixed up in a cop killing and nearly loses his own life at the hands of a B girl.

A big-city tough guy comes to a small Minnesota town to settle a deadly fight between the local crime boss and his chief rival - his son.

Can’t you feel the warm velvety wings of a butterfly opening in your chest as the bourbon slides down your throat? Or maybe you feel the rasp developing in your voice from all those cigarettes. Ever been burnt by a dame, not knowing which end was up when it was all over? The rich history of pulp stories are pure Americana. Written like a script from film noir movie, you are to be transported to a time in the '30s, '40s or '50s, where the liquor flowed freely and there was always a Crosley radio playing in some room off in the distance, just barely audible.

Quattro racconti mozzafiato per gli amanti del noir: Scuola guida - La Caccia - Tutta colpa della diossina - La via dell'amore. Sugarpulp è il movimento letterario nato dalle menti di Matteo Strukul e da Matteo Righetto sul finire del 2008. In questo primo volume sono raccolti 4 racconti inediti dei giovani autori che per primi hanno partecipato a questa nuova avventura letteraria.

A 30-something-year-old man, unhappy with his lot in life, once again, enters an old trail to meet a young attractive trick. Over time, the two men developed a unique relationship. After having received some life-changing news from his fiancée, the man plans to give his friend a new lease on life. This changes, however, when he stumbles upon a mysterious killer in the woods. The man must escape with his life before he experiences the fate that befell the victims before him.