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.

The details were always the same, the motive similar, but the grim trail of the Spider stretched across the map from Shanghai to Java and back again to Singapore. As far as Pentecost knew, fatal consequences invariably attended possession of the green sapphire. It was queer, he pointed out, that, in spite of so many acts of violence, the stone had never returned to its original owner. It seemed to be doomed to wander.Edmund Snell
Tong Law