Fiction - Crime

Screams of a man being burned alive resonate in the mind of a young woman stranded in the desert.SheAuthor: Steve BertelISBN-10: 1978107676ISBN-13: 9781978107670Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2018Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.77d

Whose Body?, first published in 1923, introduces the inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey to the world of crime. When a corpse, wearing only spectacles, is discovered in a bathtub in Battersea, Lord Peter must determine the identity of both the criminal and the victim. Assisted...

Since the night he made an ill-advised decision to commit a pair of revenge killings, Nick has made his living as a professional murderer. Early on, he dispensed with guilt or emotion. But after a routine hit gets messy, Nick gets sick and the...

SCHINA and the Queens, IVORY and NICOLE, are back from Mexico and this time the treacherous streets of Dallas threaten to take more than the ladies are prepared to lose. The plot thickens With a medical condition she wasn't prepared to deal with, a...

SCHINA was hardened by the treacherous and unforgiving streets of Dallas, trusting no one except her crew, The Queens: best friends IVORY and NICOLE. That was until she met MONEY. Calculating and cunningly smooth, Money was able to win what others failed at getting--her...

STEPHON is a young, black man who's innocent of the world's hate and racial division, until he witnesses his father get gunned down in another unjustified killing by a cop. In an instant, everything Stephon knew, including his belief in the justice system, is...

Born into the unscrupulous, male-dominated, lifestyle of drugs, murder and money, REIGN had no time for love, she was all about that bag and folding niggas up. Using a heart-shaped pattern drawn with her favorite lipstick, as her calling card, the beautiful female assassin...

On the streets of Chicago, Illinois, life usually comes with an early expiration date. The goal is to live hard and play harder while you can. And if you're lucky, you'll find a little love along the way. But death is always just around...

After all of the turmoil they've been through, KEYZ and SHAUNIE finally make their way back to each other, where they belong. This time they're stronger than ever before. But just when everything is going good, tragedy strikes. In the midst of a tragic...

A woman's loyalty is tested when her man has nothing. A man's loyalty is tested when he has everything. Twenty-three year old SHAUNIE is living the good life. She has all of the material spoils a girl desires courtesy of her long-term boyfriend, KEYZ,...

What is the price MINNIE must pay for loving her husband so blindly? And what's SAMIYAH to do when boyfriend #2 doesn't take GERRAN, the other man in her life, too kindly? Now that SLEEPY is home, he learns he's not there alone. His...

Fresh out of prison and seeking a quick come-up, SNAKE is ready to do whatever it takes to get that bag, so every hustler in the city who has big paper becomes his prey. Determined not to leave behind any witness who could send...

With an official plug, a new engagement and a baby on the way, KILLA has the world in the palm of his hands. But behind his back there's trouble brewing in paradise. At his side is TIARA, a poisonous snake of a woman who...

MACAL is a mouthwatering, successful and wealthy man. On the surface, he is a woman's dream come true. But when it comes to love and commitments, he is nothing more than a lying dog. When Macal's many infidelities are exposed, will his wife remain...

Joe Ricker writes with a voice reminiscent of Jim Thompson and Raymond Carver. This collection of stories is set in the darkest corners of New England, where the damaged American underbelly emerges. The characters in these stories will challenge every notion you have of...

Read tomorrow's best-selling authors today in the first and best multi-genre pulp fiction journal. Since 2011, Pulp Modern has offered a wide variety of fiction from authors who have gone on to write some of today's most compelling novels.Author: Alec Cizak, Michael Bracken, Thomas...

Sixteen years have passed since we last visited Karma Alonso-Walker. After Money's conviction for attempted murder of their son, Karma turned back to her first love of track and field. Newfound fame, fortune and love has given her a fresh outlook on life, but...

KARESSA' VAULT IN ONE WAY OUT. The first of her Lone Marauder Series installments. Karessa' leads a dangerous life. Growing up in an environment of dereliction to become a notorious criminal, being in the underworld of society trouble can come from anywhere. When she...

Christopher "Cashflow" King is the son of one of the most successful drug dealers ever to walk the streets of Atlanta. After his father's death, Cash followed in his father's footsteps and started the Street Kings. The Street Kings began as a small crew...

Beatlemania is back and better than even in this revised second edition. Former teen idol Sandy Fairfax finds that making a comeback can be murder It's been fourteen years since the pop star broke little girls' hearts on the 1970s hit TV show Buddy...

First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first novel. It introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, Christie's Belgian detective, who would go on to be featured in 39 of her novels. The mystery begins with the death of Emily...

On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle between their well-intentioned neighbor and their...

It's here -- USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton's newest Samantha Sweet cozy mystery. With nearly 2 million books sold and downloaded in more than 60 countries, find out what the fuss is all about Breaking into another house, creating chocolates worth $200 a...

Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is...

26 stories from 1901 to 1922 by Albert Payson Terhune, author of Lad: A Dog. Contents: A Lightning Change (Lippincott's Magazine, July 1901); A Park Row Galahad (Lippincott's Magazine, September 1902); Drunk or Crazy? (Argosy, March 1910); Back to the Wickiup (Argosy, June 1912);...

27 stories from 1900 to 1919 by Albert Payson Terhune, author of Lad: A Dog. Contents: Introduction by Anthony Tollin; The Beat that Failed (Lippincott's Magazine, November 1900); The Seal of Silence (Lippincott's Magazine, January 1902); She and the Monster (Argosy, October 1908); A...

The hustle doesn't stop...it simply keeps going. That adage is put to the test when Lorenzo Watson sinks knee-deep in the everyday struggle of life. The bills pile up and Lorenzo is pushed to his limits to stay legal. He feels the lure to...

The Black Senate is an epic story of a new breed of gangstas living under a new g-code of street laws. Jerusalem Williams and his two comrades, along with their war princess Pinky are known on the streets as the three Kings and the...

Their face off is inevitable, but neither man knows exactly when it will happen. Antonio ""Ameen"" Felder is an irresistible force destined to collide with an immovable object in Khadafi Fuller. They were once friends, bound by blood and sacrifice, but now they are...

World's collide, and unlikely alliances form when a 14-year-old girl, who has lived her entire life in one of Mexico's infamous garbage dumps, becomes the key figure in a shady land deal involving a corrupt bishop. An unassuming priest searches for the girl, while...

Desperate to escape living with her miserly uncle, Marjorie Easton eagerly accepts a job offer from the strange Michael Crispin despite knowing nothing of the employment except that it is well-paid and includes some kind of research. Much to her surprise, the "research" involves...

When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they won't...

It's time to save Manhattan.An NYPD detective is always on duty. Erin O'Reilly is just settling down for a drink with her favorite gangster, celebrating her promotion to Detective Second Grade, when she hears the call every cop dreads: "Officer down." Soon Erin and...

Two killers are prowling Manhattan. It's double duty for Erin and Rolf.A detective doesn't always have the luxury of giving all her attention to just one case. Erin O'Reilly and her K-9 partner, Rolf, have just started to sink their teeth into their latest...

Not everyone who comes to America arrives by choice.A man and a teenage girl are found dead in a bullet-riddled motel room. Evidence points to the Russian Mafia. This isn't the first time Erin O'Reilly has tangled with organized crime, but she isn't prepared...

Slaughter County; the name conjures up all sorts of disturbing images. In reality, nothing noteworthy ever happens in this quiet hamlet - not if you're a homicide detective anyway.Not until that fateful autumn evening ...The midnight sky was pitch-black, save for a sliver of...

The Hound of the BaskervillesBy A. Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is...

Ike Caudine would become a violent criminal, even kill, to be with Mary, but could he ever be faithful? After Mary leaves him, Ike turns to his childhood friend, Fritz Moeller, for an idea to impress her and win her back. He soon finds...

Chesterton's "The Crimes Of England" was written in 1916 and needs to be read, and perhaps forgiven, as a product of the Great War. The "crimes" in the title are essentially an ironic reference. Most of the "crimes" Chesterton relate to the preceding three...

It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down to the present time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of ever publishing the most curious...

Alex Roth is a musician who thumbs it out for L.A. and the woman of his dreams. Things hit a snag when a bookmaking driver Alex flags down suddenly ends up dead. With its tight, crisp writing comparable to James M. Cain and Chandler,...

They Gave Him Back His Badge, and Sent Him Down Into the Brutal Throbbing Heart of the Slums. Crooked ex-cop Corey Bradford turns out to be an ideal candidate for an underground police unit known as the Night Squad. First published 1961.Author: David GoodisISBN-10:...

Originally published in 1943, the retelling of the world of Dutch Schultz. Classic novel later made into the classic Film Noir Force of Evil, with John Garfield.Author: Ira WolfertISBN-10: 1515426157ISBN-13: 9781515426158Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

"Several million dollars of that Russian gold is in a numbered account in the Banque du Shebab-Syrie. I know the name of the man who controls that account, as well as untold millions more in numbered accounts in Switzerland. That man is here in...

Alley Girl is a hard book, cold and cruel, peopled with toughs and alcoholics, a nymphomaniac and an unfaithful wife, a savage cop and a young pervert. It is also a fine novel, written with rare and stark simplicity by the talented Jonathan Craig.Author:...

He could remember the gun in his hand, the man in front of him, the shock of the explosion, and then the blood. He could remember the flight though the woods, and the satchel with the money, and now the gang of killers, closing...

This collection includes: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster - A Western Christmas by Mrs. W.H. Corning - Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller - Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer - The First Puritan...

Boston Blackie isn't afraid of stepping over onto the wrong side of the law. A former jewel thief and safe cracker, a hardened criminal having served time in a California prison, he knows a lot about crime. He's an "enemy to those who make...

Arsene Lupin, accused of murder, heads the police investigation to clear himself by finding the true killer First published in 1919, 813 is one of the very best Lupin novels.Author: Maurice LeBlancISBN-10: 151542538XISBN-13: 9781515425380Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Johnny had a passkey to all the hotel rooms. He wasn't looking for murder, but he found it-and worse On the streets of a big city people smile and the fights are bright. But there is an altey world of darkness, double-dealing and death;...