Books tagged: crime noir

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See Night Run    by D. W. St.John
Price: $2.99 USD. 113970 words. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on October 28, 2009. .

Night Hume is an INET (Inter-Agency Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce) agent in Eugene, Oregon. His years undercover have cost him a home, a marriage, a daughter---yet, always the good soldier, he does his job. Assigned to buy from a college professor who sells to her students, he meets Ceredwen Lawrence---a most unlikely---and attractive---dealer. "I held my breath."--NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.
Cradle of Ruin    by Jesse Dedman
Price: $0.99 USD. 48560 words. Published on June 5, 2011. .

Detective Michaels, a man with a delusional ideology of respect and honor, takes it upon himself to engage in a mission that will have him playing for the sides he once detested, but anything that can be done must be done to prevent the world from plummeting any further into the fiery depths of Hell.
Twit Publishing Presents: Pulp! Summer/Fall 2011    by Chris Gabrysch
Price: $0.99 USD. 79990 words. Published by Twit Publishing  on July 16, 2011. .

A collection of 14 original stories written in a variety of pulp-inspired genres.
The Lust Damned or: Long Island Iced Tea    by Michael Hemmingson
Price: $0.99 USD. 8460 words. Published by Rominna Books on December 25, 2011. .

On his 29th birthday in Las Vegas, a man gets into some pretty weird trouble involving Rastfarian assassins, Russian hitmen, and a crazy sexy wild gun-toting defense attorney named Lisa Dean.
I'll Call Every Monday    by Black Iguana Books
Price: $1.00 USD. 59590 words. Published on December 28, 2011. .

Orrie Hitt's first novel tells the story of a sleazy insurance salesman, Nicky Weaver, and all the women he beds. One, a married artist forced by her husband to pose for nudie pictures, turns Nicky to a desire for murder...An unfairly ignored classic of 1950s crime fiction, here for your one buck enjoyment!
Nicky Weaver's Wanton Wenches or Ladies Man    by Black Iguana Books
Price: $1.00 USD. 51080 words. Published on December 28, 2011. .

Nicky Weaver has quit the insurance biz, as we last saw him in Orrie Hitt's first 1954 novel, I'LL CALL EVERY MONDAY. Nicky sets his sights on radio advertising and DJing, building up a small station in a small town into something profitable, and something he can take for himself. Even if means murder. There are women issues, all wantons wenches!
The Jazz Junkies    by Black Iguana Books
Price: $1.00 USD. 43250 words. Published on December 28, 2011. .

Guns, drugs, jazz, and the secretary service fronting as an escort service, all the wonderful ingredients for a lost noir classic now in digital form for your one buck night time noir reading pleasure! Originally published in 1957 as Junkie and later Frenzy, The Jazz Junkies was the author's intended title in manuscript.
The Trouble with Tramps: An Orrie Hitt Homage    by Michael Hemmingson
Price: $1.99 USD. 23010 words. Published by Obelisk Library on December 29, 2011. .

Jack Card is a hard-working nowhere man who dreams of a better life. Set in 1957 in a small American town, Jack juggles the favors of three women: Kay, his lush wife who cannot keep faithful; Lucy, his teenage hillbilly girlfriend who is now carrying his child in her belly; and Eve, the rich woman who promises him another life if he helps her murder the husband she hates.
Retribution    by Jefferson Blackburn-Smith
Price: $3.99 USD. 113600 words. Published on January 16, 2012. .

July, 1939. Mark “Mose” Mosely is an enforcer for the Cleveland mob. The Cleveland families have been operating under an uneasy truce since the end of prohibition and the “sugar wars” that prohibition spawned but now everything is in flux. Eliot Ness has moved east from Chicago to clean up Cleveland the way he did the Windy City and the families are on edge. The city is sweltering through a record heat wave when the bodies start to pile up. The first hit goes down outside a safe house Mose is guarding. Was Mose the intended target, or his boss, Big Mike Tolliver, or Tolliver’s mistress? Mose has only a few days to discover who is behind the violence and bring retribution before a new mob war breaks out. Adding to the chaos, Tolliver’s mistress says she is in love with Mose. Can Mose stay alive long enough to stop the war?
Hard Cold Whisper    by Michael Hemmingson
Price: $0.99 USD. 27190 words. Published by Rominna Books on January 31, 2012. .

David Kellgren is a process server, a job where everyone wants to kill the messenger and things can get a little bit dangerous and out of hand. David is attacked when trying to serve legal papers to a gang member and an angel comes to his rescue: nineteen-year-old Gabriella Amaya, trapped in a large dilapidated house, caring for her dying aunt...