In 1953 Pierce Duncan leaves college as an innocent and sets off to see America. His road trip will take him from the savagery of a Georgia chain gang to a wild ride through Texas to the darkest side of the Las Vegas fight game — and, finally, to San Francisco, the far end of the world. Along the backstreets and freight lines Dunc will meet beautiful women, dangerous men, and murder. And in California, home of the lost and the outcast, he will join up with the dynamic head of a private investigation agency. Here he will learn everything about being a man — and about brutal betrayal. Joe Gores has written a violence-marked love letter to a lost time in America, and a San Francisco roiling with the unexpected. With Dunc’s mind teeming with the cadences of Hemingway and Joyce. CASES is also an ode to the art of writing itself: writing as vivid as a lightning storm over a lonely highway, as unforgettable as a first kiss, as haunting as a dead woman’s eyes

Runyan had spent eight years in San Quentin, but now he was out and ready to lead a quiet life, an honest life. But while he was away there were people planning for the day of his release, people who wanted the two million dollars in diamonds Runyan was carrying just before he went to jail. People like the insurance investigator who arranged his parole. People like the mysterious former “partners” who want their cut. People like a beautiful woman who seems to want him alive. And people like the unknown killer who definitely wants him dead. Runyan plans to get the diamonds from where he had stashed them in order to buy his way out... but they are gone. Now his only hope is to pull another robbery — something he swore never to do again — and use the proceeds to stay alive. COME MORNING is a novel of suspense about murder and betrayal; it is also a novel about love, and two people’s fight to live on their own terms despite overwhelming odds

Life is a wondrous game for twenty-eight-year-old Eddie Dain. There’s phone chess with his beautiful wife, Marie. There’s the joy of his three-year old son. There’s his career using software to ferret out soft-core bad guys without ever leaving his computer. But when Eddie decides that a seemingly accidental death was no accident at all, it all blows up in his face. A new and shadowy enemy sends out two killers with shotguns. When they are through with him, Eddie has to be reborn. As a dead man. He’s dead to joy, dead to his past. Loveless and obsessed, he goes by the single name of Dain, lives with a cat who won’t purr, and thumbs through a bloodstained copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Building up his body and an arsenal of lethal skills that Eddie never had, Dain hires himself out as a manhunter — because somewhere out there in an underworld of criminals and contract killers are the two men who destroyed his life. Dain’s break comes in Chicago, leads him to a beautiful stripper in New Orleans, and plunges him into the steaming swamps of the Louisiana bayou country. There, Dain will get his chance to separate truths from lies, traitors from friends, the living from the dead

Dead Skip is the first novel in a remarkable new series Ellery Queen calls “authentic as a fist in your face.” With it, Joe Gores, the double Edgar-winner who spent twelve years as a private investigator, shows just how fresh and compelling the detective novel really can be

The first DKA File novel, Dead Skip, was called “superb in its swift, to-the-point plotting and on-the-mark dialogue. Dan Kearny’s detectives are Lew Archer in concert, and Joe Gores’ novel ranks at the head of its class.” — O. L. Bailey, Saturday Review In Final Notice Joe Gores has done it again. Here are the same characters, the same “fist in the face of authenticity.”[1] Joe Gores demonstrates once more how fresh and compelling the detective novel really can be

“I’m going to have your license, shamus!” The line is as familiar to television viewers and readers of detective fiction as the blonde in the bedroom or the bottle in the drawer. But when the State of California cold-bloodedly sets out to grab Dan Kearny’s license, the phrase is no longer a cliché. The “irregular” case upon which the state is building its suit was handled by Kathy Onoda. Now she is dead. As the disciplinary hearings before the State Bureau of Private Investigators proceed, Kearny’s central problem becomes: Who could have witnessed the events in the DKA Oakland office on a rainy Friday afternoon nearly a year before? Seven people. Kearny’s staff ranges the state and then the country in search of them, but they are mysteriously Gone, No Forwarding from their addresses. The search becomes desperate when Kearny’s detectives find other, deadly hunters dogging their footsteps. As Bart Heslip becomes enmeshed in the strange odyssey of a fugitive black girl, it becomes evident that her testimony, and hers alone, can unravel the intricate human puzzle at the core of the novel. Moving, often comic, always taut, Gone, No Forwarding is another intensely real picture of modern investigative techniques from Joe Gores, the writer Anthony Boucher called “one of the very few authentic private eyes to enter the field of fiction since Dashiell Hammett.” The author gives us break-neck action, sparkling characterizations, machine-gun dialogue and, as critic James Sandoe said, “He handles violence as a wise man handles nettles.”

A collection of eight stories. Includes the first appearance of the DKA File Series, and “Goodbye Pops” which won an Edgar for the Best Short Story of the Year. Joe Gores has written over 100 short stories, a dozen screen and teleplays (for such series as Columbo, B. L. Stryker, and Magnum PI), and eight novels, including the Edgar-winning Time of Predators

Bestselling novelist James Ellroy introduces this year’s collection of the finest mystery writing. Many of the contributors herein are novelists themselves, displaying their talents in short story form: Michael Connelly tells a fatal tale of revenge in “Two-Bagger.” In Joe Gores’s “Inscrutable,” the Feds beat the Mafia at their own game. Stuart Kaminsky demonstrates how horribly wrong things go when a robber gets cocky in “Sometimes Something Goes Wrong.” And Robert B. Parker shows just how important Jackie Robinson’s fans can be in “Harlem Nocturne.” Also featured are veterans of the short story form and favorites of this series. Brendan DuBois’s “A Family Game” introduces a former Mafia family trying to lead a normal life in the Witness Protection Program. Joyce Carol Oates tells a chilling tale of a crush taken too far in “The High School Sweetheart.” A tenant sneaks into the murder crime scene next door in Michael Downs’s “Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs.” Readers will be captivated by all the stories herein, whether by famed novelists or masters of the short story

Featuring the best from the modern masters of detective, intrigue, suspense, and mystery fiction

«Старые традиции рушатся, новые не успевают занять их место. И из брешей выползают хищники». ...Четверка юных подонков насилует жену профессора университета. Полиция отказывается искать преступников, и тогда профессор решает самостоятельно найти и покарать их

«ИСКАТЕЛЬ» — советский и российский литературный альманах. Издаётся с 1961 года. Публикует фантастические, приключенческие, детективные, военно-патриотические произведения, научно-популярные очерки и статьи. В 1961–1996 годах — литературное приложение к журналу «Вокруг света», с 1996 года — независимое издание. В 1961–1996 годах выходил шесть раз в год, в 1997–2002 годах — ежемесячно; с 2003 года выходит непериодически

Имя Альфреда Хичкока, создателя знаменитых американских фильмов ужасов, известно всему миру. Однако немногие у нас в стране знают, что Хичкок выступал в качестве «крестного отца» десятков авторов остросюжетных произведений: книги из серии «Хичкок представляет» популярны у читающей публики всех континентов. Сборник «Истории, от которых не заснешь ночью» — из этой серии. Он даст нашему читателю яркое представление о том, что такое настоящий триллер: «крутой» сюжет, драки и ужасы, от которых и впрямь кое-кто начинает бояться темноты

Остросюжетные рассказы американских и английских писателей написаны в жанре «саспенс», психологической новеллы-детектива, в основе которой заложены современные теории психоанализа человеческого поведения. В книге отсутствует заглавное произведение сборника: Р. Говард «Мертвые мстят» в переводе А. Василькова

Кому мстят мертвые? На этот вопрос вы получите вполне исчерпывающий ответ, прочтя этот сборник остросюжетных рассказов американских и английских писателей. Эти истории написаны в жанре «саспенс», психологической новеллы-детектива, в основе которой заложены современные теории психоанализа человеческого поведения

Заключенный сбежал из тюрьмы, чтобы проводить умирающего отца

Все мы хорошо знаем великого кинорежиссера, мастера триллера Алфреда Хичкока. Однако немногим известно, что Хичкок многие годы собирал страшные истории, придуманные американскими писателями, и составлял сборники детективов, которые были очень популярны в Америке. Составительская работа помогала Хичкоку в его основном деле — кино, литература подсказывала сюжеты и характеры для будущих фильмов. В этой книге отобраны детективные рассказы из разных сборников А. Хичкока. Книге предпослана вступительная статья Ю. Комова, рассказывающая о жизни и творчестве А. Хичкока