Search Results: Noir from 64 Books

Inscribed by the author on the title page. Near fine condition softcover, first edition full number line.

Signed by the author on the title page. VG+ condition softcover. "Hardboiled, but hot as a door knob after a nuclear blast. Tim Bryant's work is blessed not only with originality, but with a kind of madness that makes it one of a kind and as special and surprising as a one eyed, three hundred pound toad with a picnic basket. I love this guy's stuff. Seems to me, his success is assured." -- Joe R. Lansdale. Part TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and part UGETSU, Bryant's DUTCH CURRIDGE examines the life of early 1950s Fort Worth from the bottom up. Alvis Curridge is an ex-employee of the Fort Worth Sheriff's Department. When he isn't found at Peechie Keen's Bar & Kanteen, drinking and swapping stories with buddies, he is busy trying to Keep things in line around Cowtown. Even if that means occasionally tangling with his former boss. In his spare time, he enjoys taking in the local music scene. He likes western swing and jazz music almost as much as he likes Ruthie Nell, the spunky writer for the Fort… Read More

Near fine condition softcover, clean and unmarked, 208 pp. Originally published in 1952 by Gold Medal. "Flight to Darkness is at once a pulp fiction classic and a sly masterpiece of amnesia literature. At his best, Gil Brewer was as good as James M. Cain and Charles Williams, and this is Brewer at his absolute best." --Jason Starr, best-selling author of Panic Room

Signed by the author on the title page. Very good condition hardcover in like dustjacket with rubbed corners and edges, vertical crease to front flap, 204 pp. Protagonist Ben Crandel, a blase screenwriter in the midst of Hollywood glamour, helps policeman friend George Steifer find a missing woman reporter. While investigating the punk rock drug scene along the wrong part of Santa Monica Boulevard, they discover connections to neo-Nazi violence.

Signed by the author on the title page, "First edition. No. 2 of 17 copies dot.com edition." Near fine condition softcover with bumped foot of spine. Illustrated with many black and white drawings and photographs, 200 pp. A lyrical and surreal post-apocalyptic noir novel.

First edition novel, nearly fine condition softcover, clean and unmarked, 216 pp.
"Imagine James Ellroy coupled with George R. R. Martin and overseen by Charles Willeford." - Ken Bruen (author of London Boulevard)