Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies
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Portland Noir
$15.95 Add to cartAkashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the boo
- Series: Akashic Noir
- Author: Sampsell, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933354798
- Language: English
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Murder Rides A Gale Force Wind: An Island Mystery
$19.99 Add to cartWAS IT REALLY MURDER? Big crime comes to a town too small to merit even that title. Residents of the loose-knit coastal community of Echo Bay struggle with the same issues as the world at large: drugs
- Author: Maximchuk, Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: July 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1777958504
- Language: English
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Killin’ Time in San Diego: Bouchercon Anthology 2023
$20.00 Add to cartWelcome to San Diego, where the perpetual sunshine blurs the line between good and evil, and sin and redemption are two sides of the same golden coin.
Killin’ Time in San Diego is a gripping anthology- Author: West, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1643963287
- Language: English
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The Avenging Chance and Even More Stories
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971) founded London’s Detection Club, whose members swore that their “detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which i
- Author: Berkeley, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: December 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1936363801
- Language: English
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Unknown Man #89
$18.99 Add to cart“No one is Leonard’s equal,” declares the Chicago Tribune–and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard’s riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.
The
- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 006218928X
- Language: English
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021: A Mystery Collection
$16.99 Add to cartSteph Cha, a rising star who brings a fresh perspective as series editor, takes the helm of the new The Best American Mystery and Suspense, with best-selling crime novelist Alafair Burke joining her a… [more below]
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Cha, Steph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0358525691
- Language: English
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Kansas City Noir
$15.95 Read more“Hard-used heroes and heroines seem to live a lifetime in the stories . . . Half novels-in-waiting, half journalistic anecdotes that are equally likely to appeal to Kansas City boosters and strangers.
- Series: Akashic Noir
- Author: Paul, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1617751286
- Language: English
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Death Row Breakout: And Other Stories
$16.99 Add to cartSeven stories from the papers of one of America’s finest crime authors
Roger doesn’t mean for the preacher and his wife to die. Released less than a year earlier from San Quentin, he’s trying to make- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1453236732
- Language: English
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Palm Springs Noir
$16.95 Read more“Contrary to popular belief, noir doesn’t require a bleak city street for its setting. Nor water, for that matter. Noir thrives on secrets, lies and lust, all flowing plentifully through the jewel in
- Series: Akashic Noir
- Author: Demarco-Barrett, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1617759287
- Language: English
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The Best American Noir of the Century
$24.99 Add to cart“Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection.”–New York Journal of Books
In his introduction to The Best American Noir of th- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Penzler, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0547577443
- Language: English
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The Thinking Machine
$14.99 Add to cartThis entertaining short story collection features Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed “The Thinking Machine”–a brilliant but abrasive scientist who proves time and again that any puzzle ca
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Futrelle, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 172827608X
- Language: English
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The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
$19.00 Read moreFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cockroaches and “the greatest contemporary writer of the thriller” (The New York Times)–a dark and chilling short story collection that takes us on a … [more below]
- Author: Nesbo, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 059331557X
- Language: English
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Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories
$21.99 Add to cartAvailable in one volume, all the short stories by legendary Golden Age mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers, “one of the greatest mystery-story writers of the [twentieth] century.” (Los Angeles Times)
A su
- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0062275496
- Language: English
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Girl Jacked
$15.99 Add to cartJack Stratton’s a good guy on the ugly side of life. Eight years ago a bomb blew his world apart and he’s been picking up the pieces ever since. Guilt has driven a wedge between him and the family he
- Series: Detective Jack Stratton Mystery #2
- Author: Greyson, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 168399020X
- Language: English
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Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories
$15.95 Add to cart‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science’
For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199672067
- Language: English
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The Master of Mysteries
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the inspired mystic to the man of practical analytic mind, the transition was instantaneous…
Astro, the Seer of Secrets, and his lovely assistant, Valeska, sound more like a magic act than a pri
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Burgess, Gelett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1728264014
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
$30.00 Add to cartEdgar Award winner Otto Penzler–“detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington Post)–returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society’s lords and … [more below]
- Author: Penzler, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 593311027
- Language: English
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Minnesota Not So Nice: Eighteen Tales of Bad Behavior
$15.95 Read more2021 Silver Falchion Award Finalist for Best Short Story Collection presented by the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference
Minnesota Not So Nice is a collection of eighteen short stories
- Author: Merritt Deese, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0999437127
- Language: English
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Berkeley Noir
$15.95 Add to cart“A fine work from a talented pool of writers.” —San Francisco Book Review
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book
- Series: Akashic Noir
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1617757977
- Language: English
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India Gray: Historical Fiction
$16.00 Add to cartTravel to the Indian subcontinent with a new collection of Sujata Massey’s suspenseful historical fiction. This boxed set includes four works described below:
OUTNUMBERED AT OXFORD. When Perveen Mis
- Author: Sujata, Massey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0983661073
- Language: English
