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21) Cropper's cabin
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Tommy Carver may be every inch the angry, rebellious young man his teachers and parents accuse him of being. But sometimes, there are reasons for a fury like Tommy's.
Tommy's relationship with Donna, the daughter of a man he hates almost as much as his own father, has led to more outbursts than anything else in Tommy's firecracker existence. With her unearthly beauty and a passion that rivals Tommy's own, he couldn't help but fall for her. But as...
22) Cassidy's girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Hailed as one of Goodis's best works, this is a gripping crime novel about a disgraced airline pilot who has sunk to the lower depths of existence. Disaster trails the forlorn Cassidy like a hellhound. His self-destructive pattern results not only in self-torment but drags two women, Mildred and Doris, down into the gutter with him. Set in the hard streets of Philadelphia, Goodis's home ground, Cassidy's Girl entails blackmail, murder and the usual...
23) Swamp sister
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The swamp had no name and no landmarks: just cypress, Spanish moss, and alligators - and a wrecked plane with eighty thousand dollars inside it. The man who found the Money Plane could have any woman he wanted - even the deliriously carnal Dorry Mears - as long as he kept the source of his fortune a secret. But in the swamp no secret was ever safe. And neither was anyone who had Dorry for a mistress.
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories--many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
"Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives "Coffin Ed" Johnson and "Grave...
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A collection of ghost stories by American and English authors. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day creations by Joyce Carol Oates and Chet Williamson, to pulp yarns from August Derleth and M.L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Kipling and Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The man known only as Cross and his multi-skilled team of urban mercenaries are back, this time invading one of Chicago's least desirable neighborhoods in a land-grab that has the entire underworld puzzled. Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 . . . the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you...
31) The getaway
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.
35) The criminal
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable.
36) Shady Hollow
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony--until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is;...
39) Hard feelings
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Things aren't going so well for Richie Segal. His prospects at the job are pretty miserable and, what's more humilliating, his wife's prospects at her job are pretty good. Richie knows he's a good saleman, but he just can't seem to land an account."--Back cover.
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