Crime, Mystery, and Intrigue

We’ve always love reading mysteries, science fiction and adventure. We really love the stories in the old Pulp Fiction magazines that were popular in the early and mid twentieth century. In 2016, we started a website to sell books made from the stories published in those magazines. That web site is The Pulp Fiction Book Store.

In 2025 we conceived of Hard Boiled Books as a site dedicated to connecting readers with the most gripping crime, mystery, and espionage novels from the past. But we also thought that we could showcase some really good contemporary writers too. Whether they’re brand new to your attention, up-and-comers, or old hands, we think you’re going to enjoy our unique selections of crime, mystery and thriller writers.

Her lips smiled again; but her eyes did not. They regarded Agent "X" with cold, impersonal calculation. The silvery tones of her voice, her sleekness, her beauty, masked something else—something sinister. Here was a woman as dangerous as she was lovely. A tiger woman who lived by her wits and that stinging provocative appeal of her charms. Who was she? The Agent could only guess. He had pulled himself together. He began playing a game—a deadly, silent battle of wits.Brant House
The Spectral Strangler