Classic Noir Fiction

For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget 20 years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.

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 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.

The classic horror story of dual personalities gone too far, this full-cast narration explores the attempts of Utterson, a London lawyer, to investigate the strange occurrences surrounding his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the shocking discoveries he makes along the way. The impact of this story has been so strong that "Jekyll and Hyde" has become part of our vernacular, referring to those who are outwardly good but inwardly evil.

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.

Orient, sulla punta del North Fork di Long Island, affacciata sul braccio di mare che separa l'isola dal Connecticut. Meno famosa del South Fork, quella degli Hamptons, con relativi magnati dello show business newyorchese, attori e scrittori famosi. In questo paradiso marittimo dei falchi di mare, dei pescatori e delle fioriture selvagge, abitato dalle stesse famiglie da molte generazioni, arriva un giorno da New York Mills, un drifter, un vagabondo, ex tossicodipendente, ex bambino abbandonato, passato da un affido all'altro.

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.

Le Chat noir (The Black Cat), publié en 1843, est une autre des nouvelles emblématiques d'Edgar Allan Poe. Comme dans Le Cœur révélateur, cette histoire plonge dans les thèmes de la folie, de la culpabilité et de la violence, tout en explorant les conséquences de l'alcoolisme et du mal-être psychologique. C’est un récit d’horreur qui examine la dégradation d’un homme sous l’influence de ses obsessions et de ses vices.

Poe is widely known as a classic master of horror storytelling. His work has not been fully appreciated, neither during his lifetime nor now, as we approach the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of his death. It is challenging for most of us to excel in even a single field in life, and Poe was an undisputed genius in all the fields of literature he worked on. Particularly noteworthy is his role in the construction of various genres. Poe is the father of the detective novel. Few doubt that "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from 1841 and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" from 1842, both ...

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....

Le Chat noir relate l'implacable chute d'un homme. C'est l'une des nouvelles qui ont assuré la célébrité d'Edgar Poe, et ont décidé Charles Baudelaire...

"The Sheridan Road Mystery" (1921) is a novel by Paul and Mabel Thorne. Excerpt from the story: "Policeman Murphy stopped for a moment, as was his custom, at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Sheridan Road. He knew that it was about two o’clock in the morning as that was the hour at which he usually reached this point.

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.

Stories of Crime & Detection Volume Four contains a novel and three short stories: They Can't Hang Me Lucius Marplay has spent twenty years hidden away in an asylum, making countless threats against the four men who took over The Echo, the London newspaper he once owned. A visit from an old friend gives Marplay the chance to escape, and soon he begins a scheme of revenge. His daughter Joan tries to track him down but is unsuccessful. As the four newspaper men begin to die one by one, can anyone catch this clever murderer - a man capable of vanishing into thin air? They Can’t Hang Me was ...

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.

"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. […]

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?

Nella sala d'aspetto dell'aeroporto di Francoforte, un gruppo di viaggiatori attende di partire per Londra. Tra costoro c'è anche Sir Stafford Nye, un diplomatico inglese noto soprattutto per il suo spirito caustico e i suoi atteggiamenti stravaganti. Mentre si guarda intorno in cerca di un diversivo, una giovane donna gli si avvicina e gli chiede di cederle mantella e passaporto: potrà così imbarcarsi al suo posto, per sfuggire a un misterioso assassino.

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.

As his 18th birthday approaches, the only thing that Xander Stryker wishes for is death. Yet, he wakes up each morning, forced to go on living and remembering the image of his stepfather murdering his mother. Instead of dying, he is thrown into a supernatural world and offered a choice: Continue his sorry life or start anew. For Xander, the choice is obvious. In the new world, life is just as unforgiving. Horrors from his past lurk from the shadows. As they fuel a fresh legacy, Xander has to stand tall and show old monsters a stronger, better version of himself.