Classic Mysteries: 140 books

Cover of Night Squad
by David Goodis
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012

NIGHT SQUAD has all the elements of classic hard-boiled pulp. You've got the anti-hero, Corey, a disgraced cop who figures the only way to stay alive is to go criminal. You've got mobsters who fear nothing except betrayal. You've got a mysterious branch of the police you have an unhealthy interest...
Cover of Get a Load of This
by James Hadley Chase
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

Get a load of this! The hardboiled world of James Hadley Chase, the thriller maestro, is recaptured in this new edition of tough and gritty tales. An early morning stroll in the park, or a lonely cross-country drive to Florida; evading arrest in war-torn Cuba, or sipping bourbon in the Bronx—it...
Cover of Clean Break
by Lionel White
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014

A classic thriller about a major heist, made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick.
Cover of Wild Wives
by Charles Willeford
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012

A classic of hardboiled fiction, Charles Willeford's WILD WIVES is amoral, sexy, and brutal. Written in a sleazy San Francisco hotel in the early 1950's while on leave from the Army, Willeford creates a tale of deception featuring the crooked detective Jacob C. Blake and his nemesis — a beautiful,...
Cover of A Master of Deception
by Richard Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

A classic detective thriller by Marsh.
Cover of The Dock Rats of New York
by Harlan Page Halsey
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014

A classic pulp thriller set on the docks of New York City.
Cover of Caybigan
by James Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013

A classic mystery, romance, and high action by James Hopper.
Cover of A House in Naples
by Peter Rabe
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

A classic thriller set in Naples.  A pulp fiction detective thriller, exciting reading.
Cover of Homicide at the 5 and 10
by Stewart Toland
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

The cost of Terry Grey's Japanese dagger had come high in battlefield blood. But though Terry brought it back to a hometown dime store, the second fee that sinister souvenir demanded was equally deadly dear.  A classic short detective thriller.
Cover of Dealing Out Death
by W. T. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

A very beautiful blonde, lots of money, stardom, and well, things just go wrong, and there is a crime. Lots of lurid language and such, just like a classic pulp sex novel.
Cover of A Desperate Chance
by Harlan Page Halsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012

A classic hard-boiled detective thriller.
Cover of Stolen Idols
by E. Phillps Oppenheim
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

A classic tale of international intrigue, mystery, and suspense.
Cover of An Amiable Charlatan
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013

An upper class Brit gets mixed up with a father and daughter team of self-professed "adventurers" with consequences that will keep you reading.... Its a winner. Enjoy! Apparent fool meets genius thief with daughter and falls in love. Do not expect the usual outcome. It reminds me a bit of Raffles but the narrator is more active here. Well-written, funny, and a page-turner.
Cover of The Night of the Hunter
by Davis Grub
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013

A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
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