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A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele.  To his mind nothing... Read More about In a Lonely Place

“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. T... Read More about The Expendable Man

In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre’s literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter—here are five of their finest worksThis is the first of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the 1960s, nine novels of asto... Read More about Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370): The Murderers / The Name of the Game Is Death / Dead Calm / The Expendable Man / The Score

A New York Times Best Mystery of 2021 Three desperate men converge in the midst of an annual carnival in New Mexico Sailor used to be Senator Willis Douglass’ protege. When he met the lawmaker, he was just a poor kid, living on the Chicago streets. Douglass took him in, put him through school, and g... Read More about Ride the Pink Horse (An American Mystery Classic)

Loyalty and friendship motivate a quest for revenge in this early noir novel by a master of the genre. For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languished in a Fascist prison in Spain where he was tortured by a limping jailor known only as Wobblefoot. He escaped with the help of a childhood friend from ... Read More about The Fallen Sparrow

Loyalty and friendship motivate a quest for revenge in this early noir novel by a master of the genre. For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languished in a Fascist prison in Spain where he was tortured by a limping jailor known only as Wobblefoot. He escaped with the help of a childhood friend from ... Read More about The Fallen Sparrow