Hard Case Crime Collection #001, 006, 007, 022, 024, 028, 029, 031, 043, 049, 051, 058, 066, 068, 149 by Various Authors
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Overview: Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai (also the founder of the Internet service Juno Online Services) and Max Phillips. The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and ’50s. The covers feature original illustrations done in a style familiar from the golden age of paperbacks (the 1950s and ’60s), credited to artists such as Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.
The collection includes both reprints of books from the pulp era (typically labeled Complete and unabridged on the cover), and new novels written for the collection (typically labeled First publication anywhere).
Six novels published by Hard Case have been nominated for the Edgar Award: In 2005, Little Girl Lost, by Richard Aleas (a pseudonym for Hard Case Crime co-founder Charles Ardai that is both an anagram of Ardai’s name and a play on "alias"), was nominated as Best First Novel by an American Author, and Domenic Stansberry’s The Confession won the award for Best Paperback Original; in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2014, respectively, Allan Guthrie’s Kiss Her Goodbye, Russell Hill’s Robbie’s Wife, Christa Faust’s Money Shot, and Stephen King’s Joyland were nominated for Best Paperback Original.
Max Phillips’ Fade to Blonde won the 2005 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Novel of the Year, and Charles Ardai’s pseudonymous "Richard Aleas" novel Songs of Innocence won the same award in 2008.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Suspense
The numeration of the books – according to the Wikipedia
Hard Case Crime 001 Grifter’s Game by Lawrence Block
As a con man, Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off gullible women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard – and found himself holding a stolen stash of raw heroin. Now Joe’s got to pull off the most dangerous con of his career, one that will leave him either a killer.or a corpse.
Hard Case Crime 006 The Confession by Domenic Stansberry
SHE WAS YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL, AND DEAD! Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he’s also got a mistress. And when Jake’s mistress is found strangled to death with his necktie, it’s up to him to prove he didn’t do it. But how can he, when all the evidence says he did? Jake races to reveal the secret conspiracy against him. But with every step, the noose is tightening, and all of Jake’s resourcefulness may not be enough to save him?
Hard Case Crime 007 Home Is the Sailor by Day Keene
After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. But what he found instead was Corliss Mason: beautiful, sensual, irresistible – and nothing but trouble.
It begins with a bar fight that lands Swede in jail. Soon he’s helping Corliss cover up a killing. But how long can they get away with murder? And why can’t Swede shake the terrible suspicion that he’s being set up?
Hard Case Crime 011 Branded Woman by Wade Miller
International jewelry smuggling may be a man’s business, but beautiful Cay Morgan can hold her own with the best. Until the day a shadowy rival known only as The Trader has her abducted and scarred for life as a warning to stay out of his way.
Now Cay’s on her way to Mazatlan, where one of The Trader’s men has been spotted. There’s a big deal going down – but she’s not there to make a score.
Just to settle one.
Hard Case Crime 014 The Girl With the Long Green Heart by Lawrence Block
Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work.
Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover – and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay…
Hard Case Crime 022 Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark
When he’s not pulling heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theatre in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin, which is why Grofield agrees to listen to Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery. Unfortunately, Myer’s plan is insane – so Grofield walks out on him. And you don’t walk out on Myers…
Hard Case Crime 024 The Guns of Heaven by Pete Hamill
On a visit to Northern Ireland, newspaper reporter Sam Briscoe meets with a mysterious IRA leader and agrees to deliver an envelope to his supporters in New York City. It’s a decision with grave consequences – not just for Briscoe, but for his 11-year-old daughter as well. Because the bloody Irish conflict is about to come to the streets of New York, and Briscoe is the only man standing in its way…
Hard Case Crime 028 Lucky at Cards by Lawrence Block
On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard is hungry for some action–but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing wife of Bill’s latest mark. Together they hatch an ingenious scheme to get rid of her husband. But in life as in poker, the other player sometimes has an ace up his sleeve…
Hard Case Crime 029 Robbie’s Wife by Russell Hill
IN A FARM ON THE EDGE OF NOWHERE LIE THE SEEDS OF MURDER
Jack Stone fled Los Angeles, a failed marriage, and a failing career as a screenwriter to spend six months in the remote English countryside, hammering out the new script that would put him back on top. But what he found wasn’t solitude and peace – it was temptation. Because Maggie Barlow, the wife of the man putting him up, had something irresistible about her. Something that could drive a man to kill…
Hard Case Crime 031 The Wounded and the Slain by David Goodis
Their marriage on the rocks, James and Cora Bevan flew to Jamaica for a last chance at patching things up. But in the slums of Kingston James found himself fighting for his life – while Cora found her own path to destruction, in the arms of another man.
Hard Case Crime 043 The Murderer Vine by Shepard Rifkin
New York P.I. Joe Dunne is hired to find and kill the men responsible for the disappearance of three boys, who, during their summer off from college, went to Mississippi to work for the Civil Rights movement.
Hard Case Crime 049 Gun Work by David J. Schow
It’s no exaggeration to say that Barney has a more intimate relationship with guns than he does with any human, living or dead. That’s why Mexicans call him el hombre de las armas, the gunman. It’s also why old army buddy Carl Ledbetter drags him into a messy situation when Carl’s fiancée, Erica, is kidnapped in Mexico City. At the prearranged money drop things start to go awry, and eventually a badly beaten, mutilated, shotup and half-starved Barney emerges, determined to get revenge on the kidnappers and anyone else who gets in his way. This is a gory, fast-paced pulp tour de force in the classic style.
Hard Case Crime 051 Killing Castro by Lawrence Block
Shortly before the Cuban missile crisis, mystery Grand Master Block (Hit and Run) donned a pen name to publish this absorbing yarn about five men vying for a $100,000 prize put on Fidel Castros head by a mysterious guy named Hiraldo. Bounty hunter Ray Garrison only works on his own; hardened murderer Michael Turner is paired with 19-year-old Jim Hines, avenging his brothers execution; and Earl Fenton, longing to do some good before he dies of cancer, teams up with jack-of-all-trades Matt Garth, who just wants the money. As they make their way to the Cuban coast, sympathetic locals support the five would-be killers in their titular goal despite their penchant for rape and mayhem.
Hard Case Crime 058 Stop This Man! by Peter Rabe
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.
Hard Case Crime 060 Honey in His Mouth by Lester Dent
If you were small-time grifter Walter Harsh, recovering in a hospital with a broken arm, you’d listen to a proposition that could net you a cool $50,000 for impersonating the South American strongman you resemble. You’d pay attention when the dictator’s sultry mistress started putting the moves on you. And in the dead of night, when no one was watching, you might just hatch a plot to get it all for yourself: the money, the girl, and the stash of stolen loot she’s conspiring to spirit out of the country…
Hard Case Crime 066 Murder Is My Business by Brett Halliday
Ten years ago, private eye Mike Shayne did a job for one of the richest men in El Paso, digging up dirt on a boy courting the tycoon’s daughter. Now the daughter’s back, all grown up and dangerous. And so’s Shayne – but this time it’s to investigate murder…
Hard Case Crime 068 Strange Embrace by Lawrence Block
When his leading lady winds up dead, a Broadway producer goes searching for a different kind of hit
In just a few hours, Johnny Lane’s newest Broadway creation begins previews, and he cannot find his leading lady. Elaine is a nobody, but his show A Touch of Squalor will make her a star, and Johnny won’t let her miss it. There are only a few miles between his penthouse and Alphabet City, but the short cab ride to Elaine’s apartment is enough to carry this producer into New York’s hellish depths.
On the top floor of a decrepit tenement, he finds the would-be diva dead on her bed, her throat slashed by a straight razor. Before he can debut his production, Johnny will avenge his murdered star. In the dark alleys of Alphabet City, he will blaze a searchlight brighter than any marquee on the Great White Way.
Hard Case Crime 103 The Consummata by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, $75,000 may not sound like much. But it’s all the money in the world to the struggling Cuban exiles of Miami who rescued Morgan the Raider. So when it’s snatched by a man the Cubans trusted, Morgan sets out to get it back.
A simple favor but as the bodies pile up — dead men and beautiful women– the Raider wonders what kind of Latin hell he’s gotten himself into, and just who or what is the mysterious Consummata?
Hard Case Crime 104 Choke Hold by Christa Faust
Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to escape her past — not as a porn star, but as a killer who took down the sex slavery ring that destroyed her life. But sometimes the past just won’t stay buried.
When a former co-staris gunned down, it’s up to Angel to get his son, a hotheaded MMA fighter, safely through the unforgiving Arizona desert, shady Mexican bordertowns, and the seductive neon mirage of Las Vegas…
Hard Case Crime 109 The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain
Following her husband’s death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son.
At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer
who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage…
Hard Case Crime 116 Brainquake by Samuel Fuller
The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a set of rules: no personal relationships, no ties, no women…and never, ever look inside the bag you’re carrying. Paul Page was the perfect bagman, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder. But that ended the day he saw a beautiful Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every rule he’s lived by–even if it means he might be left holding the bag.
Hard Case Crime 117 Easy Death by Daniel Boyd
‘TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS…
…and two robbers hired by a local crime boss manage to heist half a million dollars from an armored car. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard coming down, the cops in hot pursuit, and a double-crossing gambler and a murderous park ranger threatening to turn this white Christmas blood red.
Hard Case Crime 119 Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal
Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales – and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will set Cairo aflame!
Hard Case Crime 149 Double Down by Max Allan Collins
Veteran thief Nolan tangles with a skyjacker and vigilante in two full-length novels from Grandmaster Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition), collected in one volume for the first time ever. It Takes a Thief to Take a Thief. In the aftermath of a bloody heist, Nolan and Jon find themselves flying home to count their ill-gotten gains — but a skyjacker taking the same flight has other plans. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, someone is offing members of the Mob-connected DiPreta family and the Mob thinks maybe Nolan can make it stop. Maybe he can — for a six-figure fee. Originally published as two separate novels (and unavailable in bookstores for 40 years!), DOUBLE DOWN finds Nolan and Jon pursuing the American dream in their inimitable criminal fashion. Flying high off his recent return after more than three decades in SKIM DEEP, Nolan is one of MWA Grand Master Max Allan Collins’ most unforgettable characters, and DOUBLE DOWN is Nolan at his hard-boiled, larcenous best.
Hard Case Crime MC1 Odds On by Michael Crichton as John Lange
They thought their daring hotel robbery scheme was airtight, but three men are about to learn that nothing is that simple at the Hotel Reina . . . To rob the finest resort in fascist Spain, three Americans need to blend in among the Mediterranean elite. And to do so, they will each need a gorgeous girl as cover. They find a depraved millionaire, a drug-addled nymphomaniac, and an assistant hotel manager who enjoys mingling with her handsome guests after hours.
The would-be thieves have used an IBM supercomputer to plan the perfect heist. Their crime has been calculated to the last detail, with every possible contingency planned for, save one: the women. The Hotel Reina is crawling with femmes fatales, and these crooks will be lucky to escape with the shirts on their backs.
Hard Case Crime MC6 Drug of Choice by Michael Crichton as John Lange
To uncover the secrets of a superdrug, a doctor must go undercover and risk it all . . .When a Hell’s Angel is thrown from his bike at 110 miles per hour, he should probably end up in the morgue. But this Angel survives his crash without a scratch, and ends up sleeping peacefully in the hospital. When Dr. Roger Clark inspects him, he finds only one defect: blue urine. Similar reports start to trickle in from hospitals upstate. It seems that a strange new drug is sending people into comas, and only Clark can unravel its mystery.His search for answers takes him on the strangest trip of his life, into a place called “Eden,” which looks like paradise, but feels like hell.
Hard Case Crime MC8 Binary by Michael Crichton as John Lange
Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction – and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is.
When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together – but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people…including the President of the United States?
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