Books by Charles Ardai
Death Comes Too Late
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME –
20 UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHARLES ARDAI
“A MASTER OF THE SHORT STORY.” – STEPHEN KING
Since debuting 20 years ago, Hard Case Crime has won acclaim for publishing the best in hardboiled crime fiction – not least of all the work of founding editor Charles Ardai, which has won the Edgar, Shamus and Ellery Queen Awards, been selected for ‘Best of the Year’ anthologies, and earned praise from everyone from the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune to Megan Abbott and Stephen King.
Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author’s 20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning “The Home Front,” about death and repentance during World War II; the Shamus Award finalist “Nobody Wins,” about a brutal gangland enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year’s-best selections such as “A Bar Called Charley’s,” about a traveling salesman’s most grueling night on the road. From Brazil at Carnival to Times Square at midnight, from Tijuana, Mexico to history’s first gunshot in 11th-century China, Ardai will take you to some of the most dangerous places in the world – and the darkest corners of the human heart.
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Black is the Night Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Maxim Jakubowski, James Sallis, Bill Pronzini, Joe R. Lansdale, James Grady, David Quantick, Charles Ardai, Kim Newman, Donna Moore, Brandon Barrows, A.K. Benedict, Joseph S. Walker, Ana Teresa Pereira, Joel Lane
A gritty and thrilling anthology of 30 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window' that inspired Alfred Hitchock's classic film.
Featuring Kim Newman, James Sallis, A.K. Benedict, USA Today-bestseller Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale and many more.
This anthology of exclusive new short stories offers tribute to the master of the pulp era – Cornell Woolrich, who stands with Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and Dashiell Hammett as a legend in the genre.
Enter a world of vengeful brides and black widows, where cold-blooded killers watch from every window and every sin shall be paid for, no matter how deep you bury them. See the chilling fate of a young woman, and the darkness in every family, in Joe R. Lansdale’s “Missing Sister”, the cold, calculating mind of an ambitious wife and her cheating husband in Samantha Lee Howe’s “Trophy Wife”, a reunion dinner ripped apart by conspiracies and violence in Susi Holliday’s “The Invitation”, and the tight-knit family of a New York dive bar explode into violence in William Boyle’s “New York Blues Redux”.
Hope that the long, dark night will keep your sins and secrets.
FEATURING
CHARLES ARDAI
BRANDON BARROWS
A. K. BENEDICT
WILLIAM BOYLE
M. W. CRAVEN
MASON CROSS
MAX DÉCHARNÉ
O’NEIL DE NOUX
MARTIN EDWARDS
PAUL DI FILIPPO
JAMES GRADY
SUSI HOLLIDAY
SAMANTHA LEE HOWE
MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI
VASEEM KHAN
JOEL LANE
JOE R. LANSDALE
BARRY N. MALZBERG
NICK MAMATAS
WARREN MOORE
DONNA MOORE
TARA MOSS
KIM NEWMAN
ANA TERESA PEREIRA
BILL PRONZINI
DAVID QUANTICK
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH
JAMES SALLIS
LAVIE TIDHAR
JOSEPH S. WALKER
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Gun Honey: Collision Course
The highly-anticipated third volume of the best-selling comic franchise, written by award-winner Charles Ardai, co-founder of Hard Case Crime!
Fans of the series and pulp noir enthusiasts will love seeing sexy heroine Joanna Tan collide with government agents in her epic return!
After nearly a year in hiding from government agents looking to kill her, Gun Honey Joanna Tan launches a plan to turn the tables that will take her from the jungles of Borneo to the streets of Yokohama and the sands of the Gobi Desert. But when four armed groups converge on one secret location, will anyone survive the explosive collision?
Fans of the first two graphic novels and classic pulp crime fiction will get a thrill out of this fast-paced, action thriller.
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