Private Investigator Noir

Che triste autunno, questo autunno, per il detective privato Mario Borri, 65 anni d'età per 165 centimetri d'altezza. La pensione è alle porte. E mentre sta provando inutilmente ad ammorbidire II magone per l'ormai imminente addio alle armi con qualche dose non troppo sparagnina di Jack Daniel's liscio. Si presenta nel suo ufficio una sventola dal capelli fulvi che gli propone un lavoretto all'apparenza facile facile. Non a Milano, però: in un paese lacustre lontano dalla sua amata città.

Quando Rob Hale, un giovane tecnico del riscaldamento, si risveglia in ospedale dopo un incidente in moto, il suo primo pensiero va a chi era in sella dietro di lui, un'affascinante bionda conosciuta il giorno prima durante un intervento di riparazione in una casa tra i boschi.

Seventeen is a hitman, the best in the world, so-called because there were 16 before him, stretching back through the decades. Every government organisation in the world wants his services and every other high-level hitman has placed a target on his back. Because to be the best, you have to beat the best. When Seventeen is ordered to find and kill his predecessor, the hit goes wrong and hunter turns to hunted. An ultraviolent duel develops between two assassins at the height of their powers, but when they fight themselves to a standstill, the real target of the hit emerges.

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with tycoons and...

Mike Hammer has been away from New York for too long. Recuperating in Florida after the mob shoot-out that nearly claimed his life, he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral—and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would...

Forced to retire from the D. C. police, newly minted P.I. Frank Marr is recovering from rock bottom when a friend asks for help—and now, he must revisit the dark, drug-fueled world he left behind. Ostracized by his family after a botched case that led to the death of his baby cousin, Jeffrey...

Now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, and Willem Dafoe From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan...

A blood-soaked mystery. A town full of suspects. A detective who won’t quit until justice is served. When a high-profile pool hall owner is discovered brutally murdered in his own home, Detective Jack Lisbon and his partner Claudia Taylor are thrust into a high-stakes investigation. With...

The author of the acclaimed Sanctus trilogy conjures an eerie epic of good and evil, retribution and redemption—the first novel in the mesmerizing Solomon Creed series in which a man with no memory of his past must save a lost soul in a small Arizona town. On a hilltop in the town of...

“Constant action and top-notch writing.” —New York Times A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard’s Split Images—a gripping and electrifying example of noir gold from “the coolest, hottest...

"My boyfriend's been stealing my Jimmy Choos." Genevieve Bower has hired Private Investigator Sam Kelson to recover her stolen shoes from her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. The problem is that no one's seen Genevieve's boyfriend for the past two weeks. Events take a disturbing twist when, in his search for the shoes, Kelson comes across a body, shot in the head. A clear-cut case of suicide - or is it? Has Kelson's client been wholly honest with him? What is this case really about? At the same time, an explosion rips through one of the city's public libraries....

Frank Marr returns in this thrilling, dark novel, as the private investigator takes on a family case that brings him deep in the world of his vices. Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit, until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the DC police...

Nella sala d'aspetto dell'aeroporto di Francoforte, un gruppo di viaggiatori attende di partire per Londra. Tra costoro c'è anche Sir Stafford Nye, un diplomatico inglese noto soprattutto per il suo spirito caustico e i suoi atteggiamenti stravaganti. Mentre si guarda intorno in cerca di un diversivo, una giovane donna gli si avvicina e gli chiede di cederle mantella e passaporto: potrà così imbarcarsi al suo posto, per sfuggire a un misterioso assassino.

Artemus Black doesn't believe in fate...but even a hardened Hollywood PI can question destiny when cases turn ugly. With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, nicotine, and anger management issues, how much worse can it get? The answer is plenty, and Black finds himself in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder - and bad hair days.

Even generations later, you can't escape...the evil that men do. Stripped of his private investigator's license and slumming it as a night security guard at a Jersey storage facility, Jackson Donne thinks he's finally hit rock bottom. Then the bottom really falls out: The sister he hasn't seen in years shows up, needing help.

Jay Porter, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire, is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse, Jay meets Nicki, a young college intern, who tips him off to a possible scandal - first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to private institutions for political kickbacks.

L'investigatore privato Bacci Pagano non sa dire di no alla richiesta di Mara, una delle donne della sua vita: dovrà tenere a bada le inquietudini del dottor Nicolò Ingroia, detto il Gigante, lo psicoanalista che vive sulle alture che sovrastano Genova Nervi. In realtà avrebbe più di un motivo per rifiutare l'incarico: non è il suo mestiere occuparsi di un alcolizzato che ha tentato il suicidio; e poi il Gigante l'aveva già incontrato vent'anni prima, quando indagava sulla morte di un suo giovane paziente misteriosamente ucciso in Thailandia.

The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered—a cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad...

Dr. John H. Watson ist gerade in seiner Praxis beschäftigt, als er von seiner Frau Mary die Nachricht erhält, sofort nach Hause zu eilen, da ein wichtiges Telegramm von Mrs. Hudson auf ihn wartet. Mit knappen Worten steht dort geschrieben: Holmes ist verschwunden - Stopp - Es gab Krawall - Stopp - Mache mir Sorgen - Stopp. Sofort eilt Watson in die Bakerstreet und findet in der Wohnung 221 b keinen geringeren als Inspektor Lestrade vor. Zusammen begeben sich die beiden auf Holmes's Spuren.

Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway, and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A drug pusher, a rapist, a loan shark, all targeted in what look like vigilante attacks. And the killer is writing to Jack, signing their name: C-33. Jack has had enough. He doesn’t need the...