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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

>From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask.

The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).

The hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich Village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again--that's where Matthew Scudder comes in.

When syndicated romance columnist John Hunter is found dead from an apparent overdose, the townspeople of the sleepy hamlet of Eastpoint accept the outsider's death in stride, until Police Chief Hank Reed discovers a secret room filled with lewd paintings featuring local married women.

Ex-police officer Sebastian Clifford had decided to limit his work as a private investigator, until Detective Constable Bird, aka Birdie, asks for his help.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they...

On the beach near his home, private investigator Wil Hardesty is approached by a Vietnamese fisherman. Vinh Tien is not convinced that the disappearance at sea of his only son was the accident it was ruled. Wil, a Vietnam vet, resisting the ghosts of a past war, decides to help Vinh Tien because Wil, too, lost a son to the ocean.

All his life, for almost as far back as he could remember, Victor had had a phobia. In prison, inevitably, he reflected on the grotesque way it had begun, about the panics and violent anger. He asked himself, too, why the child of happily married, middle-class parents should have needed to make motiveless and unreasoning attacks on women. Holed up in that house with the girl, he had not meant to pull the trigger. It was panic.

Insurance investigator Brent Calloway may be too hard-boiled to crack a smile, but he’ll go to any length to crack a case. Calloway’s about to go to extremes to see to it that one ship makes it safely from Hawaii to the mainland. Going undercover and posing as ruthless killer Spike O’Brien Calloway quickly discovers that on this ship nothing is what it seems, and no one can be trusted. With so much insurance money at stake, and the whole crew apparently in on the scam, this could end up being a voyage to the bottom of the sea....

US Navy Lieutenant Steve Craig is in one hell of a mess. Being accused of murder is bad enough, but the local police are convinced he’s killed his own father. And now, for Steve Craig, the plot is about to get down and dirty. Steve’s safe from the cops as long as he stays aboard his Navy ship - but the word safe isn’t in his vocabulary. He slips off the vessel and vanishes into the seamy underside of the city, determined to find out who took his father's life...even if it means risking his own.

A pulse-raising thriller from Diana Wilkinson, author of the Number One bestseller The Girl in Seat 2A What happens when the safety of your home is no longer safe? Every Friday night during lockdown, six friends meet onscreen to take part in a quiz. But when it's Barton Hinton’s turn to host...

I juli 1932 står politiet i Berlin over for en gåde: En mand bliver fundet død i en vareelevator i "Haus Vaterland", det legendariske forlystelsessted på Potsdamer Platz, og alt tyder på, at han er druknet i etablissementets svømmepøl. Men han er åbenbart ikke den eneste, der er omkommet på den måde... For at opklare sagen Vaterland må kriminalassistent Gereon Rath ud p en usædvanlig efterforskningsrejse, som blandt andet bringer ham helt til Østpreussen - og Rath når grænsen for, hvad han kan klare.

Dans la pièce, cinq corps. Ceux des membres d'une même famille. Une balle dans la tête, le père respire encore faiblement. De toute évidence, cet homme couvert de dettes a décidé d'assassiner les siens avant de se donner la mort. Appelée sur les lieux, l'enquêtrice D. D. Warren comprend...

El detective Robert hunter de la Sección Especial de Homicidios del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles recibe una llamada anónima en la que se le pide que se conecte a una dirección específica de internet, una transmisión privada. Hunter se conecta, e inmediatamente comienza un programa concebido solo para él. Pero la persona que le llamó no quiere que el detective Hunter tan solo mire; quiere que participe, y negarse a hacerlo sencillamente no es una opción.

¿Quién querría asesinar a Stewart Match? ¿Es posible que se suicidase? La muerte en extrañas circunstancias de un joven de dieciséis años en su propio domicilio hace que los detectives Liz Cromwell y Jeremy Pruner se personen en el lugar del suceso. A pesar de que las evidencias...

Lucas Carr went to Glenbury Hall, an old country manor house turned hotel. He signed in at reception, took his key, and went upstairs to his room. But he never got there. Somehow he vanished along the way, with not a single clue to suggest what might have happened to him. Lucas belonged to the same mysterious organization that employs Ishmael and Penny, so they are sent in to solve the mystery. But when they arrive at grim and isolated Glenbury Hall, they discover it has a reputation as one of the most haunted old houses in England.

A totally gripping and unputdownable psychological thriller. Fans of Lisa Jewell, Clare Mackintosh, Freida McFadden and Daniel Hurst will be kept up all night! 🔪🩸🤫 You saw something terrible… now you’ll never be safe again Ellie can’t stop having nightmares. It’s been the same...

Discover the BRAND NEW book in the utterly gripping Yorkshire Murders series from bestseller Wes Markin. 💀 🚨 Did you think this was the end? Think again… 👀 A desperate father… Graham Blanks is having a very bad day. With his daughter’s life hanging in the balance, Graham finds...

Taryn Moore er ung, smuk og lynende intelligent … så hvorfor skulle hun begå selvmord? Da kriminalassistent Frankie Loomis ankommer til gerningsstedet for at efterforske pigens dødbringende spring fra hendes altan, siger hendes mavefornemmelse hende, at der hører mere med til historien. Hendes instinkter bliver bekræftet, da overraskende oplysninger kommer for dagens lys, oplysninger, der kunne være tilstrækkelig grund til Taryns selvmord – eller et motiv til at myrde hende.

Someone is watching...no one is safe. The once tranquil woods in a picturesque part of Lenchester have become the bloody stage to a series of ritualistic murders. With no suspects, Detective Chief Inspector Whitney Walker is once again forced to call on the services of forensic psychologist Dr...