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CIS: A classic revisited - Red Harvest

By Jeremy Megraw

20 September, 2015

Along with Sam Spade, there is hardly a more iconic character in crime fiction history than the aloof yet resolute private eye The Continental Op. And both are the creation of Dashiell Hammett, best known internationally as the author of the Maltese Falcon. Hammett, along with fellow pulp…

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The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

By DavidPrestidge

20 September, 2015

One look at the cover of this book, and you know that Chastity has been well and truly corrupted. Frank Westworth’s second Killing Sisters noir novel offers guns, girls, guitars and gruesome violence according to one of the blurbs. JJ Stoner is, among other things,…

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The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes by Lawrence Block

By crimefictionlover

15 September, 2015

You know what you’re in for within the first few pages with this pulp detective story set in Florida. Block begins the book with his main character, Doak Miller, performing anal sex with the estate agent who’s recently sold him a house in Gallatin County….

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CIS: A classic revisited - The Long-Legged Fly

By Zachary Colbert

11 September, 2015

This spartan but stylish New Orleans noir was James Sallis’s debut novel and the first book in his Lew Griffin series. The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to the grizzled private detective through an exchange that’s the epitome of crime noir – beautiful and brutal in…

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Every Night I Dream of Hell by Malcolm Mackay

By DavidPrestidge

7 September, 2015

Glasgow crime novels seem to be two a penny these days, but this one is different. Firstly, the city is a kind of mute spectator to the events. Apart from one or two brief references to streets and districts, there is a welcome absence of…

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Vortex by Paul D Marks

By RoughJustice

26 August, 2015

Vortex is a first-person narrated novella which readers can blast through in a couple of hours. It’s a hardboiled thriller with strong noir overtones, and is about the past – how you can’t change it or the mistakes you’ve made, and how the past changes…

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Naked Shall I Return by Christopher Bartley

By DavidPrestidge

25 August, 2015

The Bible, like Shakespeare, is always a good source of book titles. Here we have that glum fellow Job to thank. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return.” Christopher Barley’s latest is set on the West Coast in the…

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Dead Heat with the Reaper by William E Wallace

By RoughJustice

24 August, 2015

All Due Respect is steadily building a solid reputation stateside as an indie publisher releasing the kind of gritty, hardboiled and noirish crime fiction that we enjoy. Alongside its quarterly short fiction magazine the company has been publishing novels, short story collections and novellas, and…

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CIS: A classic revisited - Red Harvest

The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes by Lawrence Block

CIS: A classic revisited - The Long-Legged Fly

Every Night I Dream of Hell by Malcolm Mackay

Vortex by Paul D Marks

Naked Shall I Return by Christopher Bartley

Dead Heat with the Reaper by William E Wallace

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