hard-boiled
The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett
The Big Knockover – A slick, well-oiled gang hit San Francisco’s financial heart like a flash flood. They stormed the vaults of the city’s biggest banks, cleaned out every penny, then vanished into thin air—like they were never there at all.
English Knife by Robert A. Garron
English Knife – Four Stories: A kidnapping for love, a ship full of Nazi spies, a robbery/homicide and a man who snapped. A full line-up of crime.
The Deadly Ones by Robert A. Garron
The Deadly Ones – Three stories about murders and the sociopaths that commit it. A corrupt politician accidentally kills his ex-secretary and has to disappear; an accomplice to fraud gets the the tables turned on her when she tries to kill her partner in crime; and all of the murders surrounding a secret new gunsight.
Chet Lacey – Private Investigator by Robert Sidney Bowen
Chet Lacey- Private Investigator – Five stories of the cases of Private Detective Chet Lacey. He finds murder, blackmail, and the seamy side of life even in the “nicest” parts of society.
Chet Lacey – Guns Are Handy Things by Robert Sidney Bowen
When Chet Lacey, Private Investigator, deals with the low life grifters that surround high society he finds that guns can be handy things.
Cocktails or Corpses? by Talmage Powell
Cocktails or Corpses? – Five stories of murder, betrayal, attempted murder, blackmail and setups. And a lot of thoroughly bad people.
