Tough Guys & Dangerous Dames
Author: Robert E. Weinberg
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566190114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of 25 hard boiled detective stories celebrating the genre.
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Dangerous Dames
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 1440662231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn omnibus edition of The Plutonium Blonde and The Doomsday Brunette Double your pleasure, double the laughs with this omnibus edition featuring Zachary Nixon Johnson, the last freelance PI on Earth. It's 2057, and Zach is partnered with an experimental A.I. named HARV. In what is both an homage to and parody of the great heyday of pulp fiction, they solve cases involving androids, future tech wizards, and of course, the occasional nuclear-powered, genocidal fembot...
Hard City
Author: Nathan Russell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-11-24
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1472849558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA roleplaying game of mystery and hardboiled action in a city that never sleeps. I woke with a start, my mouth tasting like an old glove and my head pounding from the events of the previous evening, though I wasn't sure if it was the beating from Benny's boys or the half bottle of drugstore whiskey that had done the most damage. I lifted my eyelids like stubborn blinds to find my gaze fall on a dame with a hundred-dollar purse in one hand and a cheap bean-shooter in the other. I groaned and cursed myself for ever getting involved in this mess... In Hard City, character creation is swift and simple, generating competent yet flawed individuals and focusing on what sets them apart as they walk the fine line between right and wrong. Fast action resolution places the emphasis on the momentum of the plot, while the sandbox setting provides evocative hooks for adventures – fight crooks, rescue the innocent, thwart blackmail plots (or start them!), or uncover corruption in the Mayor's office. Stalk the mean streets of a world filled with two-bit thugs, hard-nosed gumshoes, intrepid reporters, gangsters, and femme fatales, all doing what they must to survive in the concrete jungle. With trouble around every corner, a secret on every lip, and a gun in every pocket, danger is never far away in the hard city.
The Neverending Hunt
Author: Paul Herman
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2008-09-08
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0809562561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrepared by renowned Howard scholar Paul Herman with the assistance of Glenn Lord, this is the first new bibliography of Robert E. Howard since 1976. This massive volume contains more than twice as much information as the preceding biblio, The Last Celt. Robert E. Howard is considered the Godfather of Sword and Sorcery, and the creator of the international icon, Conan the Cimmerian, yet wrote successfully in numerous genres. The Neverending Hunt lists every story, poem, letter and publication in which a Howard work has appeared. It's more than you might think . . .
Tough as Nails
Author: Frederick Nebel
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 717
ISBN-13: 9049981224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe complete collection of fifteen stories starring one of pulp fiction’s most hardened PIs, with accompanying illustrations It’s hot in St. Louis, and Donahue is looking for a hired gun. An ex–New York cop who got canned from the NYPD after raiding the wrong gambling joint, Donahue has spent four years on the job as a private detective—punishing work that’s turned him from a tough customer into one of the most hard-boiled operatives in the country. A killer named Micky Shane has skipped New York for St. Louis, and Donahue has come to find him. When he does, it won’t be good for Donahue—but it’ll be a whole lot worse for Shane. In his days writing Donahue stories for Black Mask magazine, Frederick Nebel was as popular and well respected as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Although his name is no longer widely known, these classic tales of two-fisted justice have lost none of their grit or their bite.
The Deadly Game
Author: Norman Daniels
Publisher: Digital Vintage Pulps
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1936456044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Gems fascinate me . . . the way women do. Like women, each gem is different. Each has its own individual coloring and shape. It can be a glittering thing, full of fire–or it can be cold and forbidding.” Mike Sloan, most-wanted jewel thief and respectable jeweler on the side, was an expert with both gems and women. He could always get a beautiful woman to front for him. But tonight was his biggest and most dangerous job–and it would take more than a beautiful woman to keep Mike Sloan warm . . . and alive! He’s a tough-guy with elegance, style and a romantic weakness for dolls. Gems and dames—a deadly combination!
The Truman Gumshoes
Author: J.K. Van Dover
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2022-01-31
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1476688028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the Carney Wilde novels of Bart Spicer, and it develops new perspectives on the well-known Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane and the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald. A particular focus is upon the theme of the detective's status as a loner who succeeds in discovering truth and achieving justice because he works outside organized social structures.
Dangerous Dames
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780756404963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZachary Nixon Johnson is hired by an ex-exotic dancer and the CEO of the largest corporation on the planet to locate and destroy her replica; and, Johnson must help the Thompson Quads discover the truth surrounding the death of their supposedly indestructible sister.
Robert E. Howard
Author: Leon Nielsen
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-06-08
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 147660424X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert E. Howard published primarily in pulp magazines, creating memorable characters like Conan of Cimmeria. After his suicide at the age of 30, pulps continued publishing Howard material posthumously. His first hardcover book appeared in 1937, a year after his death. That book, A Gent from Bear Creek, is the holy grail for Howard collectors--only 12 original copies are known to exist. This invaluable resource for Howard collectors has information for every known published work. Initial chapters provide a biography, discuss Howard's literary legacy, and give basic tips about book collecting and selling. The main body of the work is a bibliography of Howard's published works from 1925 through 2005. A thorough index locates the publication of every Howard story or poem.
The Heel
Author: William Rohde
Publisher: Digital Vintage Pulps
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1936456028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUp from the Chicago slums, schooled in sin and violence, Ray Hitchcock understood only three words—self-preservation, avarice and lust. He had a mind like a steel trap; ice-water in his veins; dynamite in his fists; cold stone where his heart should have been. To him, every woman was simply a female who had her price. Ray also had a scheme to swindle a million dollars, and he vowed that neither the cops nor the crime syndicate were going to push him against the rail! Then he began to get the dirty end of the deal. William Rohde, a master craftsman of the hard-boiled novel school blasts the lid off New York’s newest and ugliest racket—a brutal, one-man extortion game in which loose-moneyed, loose-moral-ed men and women are easy prey for underworld leeches like The Heel, Ray Hitchock. He was a cruel, cunning mobster who played Romeo to an expensive, man-hungry blonde—long enough to get a crack at a million dollar jackpot. Smart as a whip, Hitchcock could have been successful as a straight-up businessman; unfortunately, his ego got in the way—causing him to always look for an angle and a quick and easy buck.
