Manhattan Noir 2 by Lawrence Block
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
Classic reprints from: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, Horace Gregory, Geoffrey Bartholomew, Cornell Woolrich, Barry N. Malzberg, Clark Howard, Jerome Charyn, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence B ...Show more
Chicago Noir - The Classics by Joe Meno (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"In this superior entry in Akashic's noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction....Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novel The Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kamins ...Show more
Hong Kong Noir by Jason Y. Ng; Susan Blumberg-Kason
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial centre's gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city's ghosts and spirits...The stories touch on major points in Hong Kong modern history: the horrors of Japanese occupation, post-war poverty, the economic boom under the British, the city's return to Chinese ...Show more
Marseille Noir by Cédric Fabre (Editor); David Ball (Translator); Nicole Ball (Translator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"Gritty from east to west, Marseille is the perfect venue for the latest in Akashic's venerable Noir series. While earlier entries in this 70-volume series have sometimes been bleak and atmospheric, this one is all red meat....Just as Marseille is tailor-made for noir, this dark banquet is tailor-made f ...Show more
Prague Noir by Pavel Mandys (Editor); Miriam Margala (Translator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"The 14 crime stories set in Prague in this superior entry in Akashic's Noir Series offer armored car robbery, kidnapping, murder masked as suicide, and more--not bad for a burg that, as the editor notes in his intro, didn't even have 'the profession of private detective' until 1990...In the varied and ...Show more
Amsterdam Noir by René Appel (Editor); Josh Pachter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
Walter van den Berg's "Get Rich Quick" was named the recipient of the inaugural Literatuurprijs Nieuw-West award "Every book in the Noir series serves as an introduction to a place. Besides the crime, the series and its editors have made it a point to address things like economic infrastructure, gentrif ...Show more
D. C. Noir 2 - The Classics by George Pelecanos (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
Classic reprints from: Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Julian Mazor, Ward Just, Jean Toomer, Roach Brown, Larry Neal, and others. George Pelecanos is an independent film producer, the r ...Show more
Delhi Noir by Hirsh Sawhney (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"This book is a chance to get a fix on some of India's best crime writers" (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). These fourteen original stories, from some of India's most outstanding literary talents, take you into a world of sex in parks, male prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. Set in a city plag ...Show more
New Orleans Noir - The Classics by Julie Smith (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"Explores the dark corners of our city . . . set both pre- and post-Katrina . . . harrowing reading, to be sure, but it's pure page-turning pleasure, too." --The Times-Picayune Residents of the Big Easy are proud of its unique history and character. Resourceful and resilient, they are survivors--of nat ...Show more
Bronx Noir by S. J. Rozan (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
Fiction by Marlon James, Kevin Baker, and more: "Captures the immense diversity . . . from the mean streets of the South Bronx to affluent Riverdale" (Publishers Weekly). Set amid landmarks like Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Zoo, in crowded streets or leafy enclaves, this collection of crime and suspens ...Show more
Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Murder Room Ser.
Ned Beaumont is a tall, thin, moustache-wearing, TB-ridden, drinking, gambling, hanger-on to the political boss of a corrupt Eastern city. Nevertheless, like every Hammett hero (and like Hammett himself), he has an unbreakable, if idiosyncratic moral code. Ned's boss wants to better himself with a thoro ...Show more
Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir
'Another gem . . . a masterpiece of duplicity' Washington Post'Leonard provides the fizziest and cleverest dialogue in crime fiction. A total delight' The Times Every prison inmate needs a Road Dog - someone to watch their back, someone they can trust on the inside and out. For wealthy Cuban criminal C ...Show more