hard-boiled

Everybody’s Watching Me – Vetter sent a kid to deliver a note to Renzo saying that Vetter is going to kill Renzo because he had Cooley killed. Vetter is known for knocking off a lot of mobsters but no one knows who Vetter is. Renzo better find Vetter first or prepare to die.

To Death! Three stories of suspense and murder, fall guys and frames, and good women and bad.

Cocktails or Corpses? – Five stories of murder, betrayal, attempted murder, blackmail and setups. And a lot of thoroughly bad people.

The Navy Spy Murders – A Japanese spymaster has left a trail of bodies in his quest to uncover the Navy’s secrets and Dan Fowler of the F.B.I. has been called in to stop the deaths as well as the flood of stolen secrets.

The Dain Curse – A destructive fate pursues Gabrielle Leggett wherever she goes; it annihilates her home, penetrates into the new thought temple where she takes refuge, brings her wedding-trip to a tragic end, and drives her to the verge of insanity.

The Big Knockover – A slick, well-oiled gang hit San Francisco’s financial heart like a flash flood. They stormed the vaults of the city’s biggest banks, cleaned out every penny, then vanished into thin air—like they were never there at all.

No Good From a Corpse – Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death.

The Deadly Ones – Three stories about murders and the sociopaths that commit it. A corrupt politician accidentally kills his ex-secretary and has to disappear; an accomplice to fraud gets the the tables turned on her when she tries to kill her partner in crime; and all of the murders surrounding a secret new gunsight.

Red Harvest – The Original Poisonville Stories – Poisonville is the original set of four novelettes from 1927 and 1928 that were edited together to become the novel Red Harvest. The Continental Op is sent on assignment to a mining town in Montana to do “some business.” The man he was supposed to meet was murdered before he got to meet him.

The Continental Op – 1928 – 1928 was a seminal year for Dashiell Hammett. He ended the series of stories known as the Poisonville stories that were later turned into the novel “Red Harvest.” Later in the year he began the series of stories that were turned into the novel “The Dain Curse.”

English Knife – Four Stories: A kidnapping for love, a ship full of Nazi spies, a robbery/homicide and a man who snapped. A full line-up of crime.

My Flesh is Sweet – On the run in Mexico from the accidental killing of a drunken Mexican general, Ad Conners and Eleana Hayes must somehow make it back across the border to confront a decades-old secret that could destroy them both.