הספרים של הוצאת Hard Case Crime
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A New York bar bouncer with dreams of being more, Tommy Russo jumps at the chance to join a horse-owning syndicate. But to do so he'll have to pony up $10,000--and that's money he hasn't got. So what's an ambitious young man to do? Anything he has to... First U.S. publication ever! By the Ba...
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From a Noir Master, a Classic Tale of Grift and Greed. Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one that will leave him either a killer -- or a corpse. Present...
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Here's a review from Publisher's Weekly:The Hard Case Crime imprint has found a perfect partner in Block, as this gritty grifter's tale, in print for the first time in 40 years, goes to show. In a small town somewhere between Chicago and New York, down on his luck card shark Bill Maynard stops off t...
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YEARS AGO, A P.I. OUT OF CHICAGO BROUGHT JUSTICE TO A DIRTY TOWN. NOW HE'S GOING TO PAY. A sawed-off shotgun blast to the face leaves one man dead--and reveals a secret that has pursued another across an ocean and set the world's most ruthless criminal on his trail. The man needs ...
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A shady book publisher and a showgirl with an artistic streak have to escape both the cops and the Mob after publishing a made-up account of a robbery at a Mob-run nightclub....
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First published under a pen name in 1961, this early thriller by MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block tells of five Americans dispatched to Cuba with a deadly assignment---the assassination of Fidel Castro. Here's what a reviewer had to say on Amazon's site:Hard Case Crime has done it again, bringing us...
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"Guthrie writes with an urgency, energy, cynical realism and mastery of casual violence that is rarely encountered in British crime writing" -- The Times of London
"prose and scenes are lean and sharp, built for speed, built for excitement, with characters who immediately make an impact as forc...
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Growing up in the bosom of the Atlantic City mob, Anthony Russo dreams of living a comparatively normal life in professional boxing, but he is trapped by a double murder and an affair with a beautiful mud wrestler. Reprint....
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A house detective in a Washington D.C. hotel gets entangled in a complex web of lies, burglary, and murder after a mysterious and gorgeous woman checks in....
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Dusk-to-Dawn Merry-Go-Round of Murder.Down-and-out East Village private eye Payton Sherwood finds himself once again at the bottom of a pig-pile of murder, lust, and greed on Manhattan's Lower East Side. By the author of EAST OF A, this is another modern-update of the classic hardboiled private eye...
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When the thirty-six pounds of gold he steals from a lab turns out to be radioactive, down-and-out thief Tony Catell has to stay one step ahead of the FBI while trying desperately to find someone willing to take it off his hands....
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When a burlesque performer dies onstage during a show, the show's MC investigates, delving deep into the seedy and seductive world of bump-and-grind....
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