Best of
Noir

1991

Tutto Sherlock Holmes vol. 2: Le memorie di Sherlock Holmes, Il mastino dei Baskerville


Arthur Conan Doyle - 1991
    Conan Doyle loved the idea of creating a third novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, in which Holmes must decipher the otherworld. Sure, there is a supernatural and terrifying air that makes a logical solution seem impossible, but Holmes cannot be deterred. In the second book of this collection, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, several cases put the mental agility of the detective to test. Holmes will have to deal with his first error in judgment and with his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who sends an assassin to kill the detective.

L.A. Noir


James Ellroy - 1991
    Confidential, the basis of the motion picture, includes Blood on the Moon, Because the Night, and Suicide Hill. 50,000 first printing.

Killing Suki Flood


Robert Leininger - 1991
    The moment Frank Limosin sees gorgeous eighteen-year-old Suki Flood sitting on the rear deck of the red Trans Am in the hot empty desert, he feels trouble in the air. The Trans Am has a flat tire. They're over ten miles from the nearest highway. And Suki, dressed in short shorts and a tiny halter top, doesn't know how to change a tire. Against Suki's will, Frank gives her a lesson in tire changing, then he thinks that's it, he'll never see her again. How wrong can one man be? Because Suki turns out to be fifty times more trouble than Frank ever dreamed possible. He saved her once. Now he has to save her again and again and again . . .

Tough Tender


Max Allan Collins - 1991
    Book jacket/back: Nolan though he had gone straight, his money invested in a profitable nightclub -- but suddenly, he finds himself confronted with a familiar face -- the president of a bank he once robbed...

Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich


Cornell Woolrich - 1991
    Woolrich’s autobiography includes accounts of his working methods, his family and home, memories of childhood, college experience, and his philosophy of life.

Dark Crimes: Great Noir Fiction from the '40s to the '90s


Ed GormanGil Brewer - 1991
    EstlemanExit by Andrew Henry VachssDeathman by Ed GormanIntroduction to The Red Scarf by Bill PronziniThe Red Scarf by Gil BrewerBut You'll Never Follow Me by Karl Edward WagnerThe Tunnel of Love ["Hell Is My Legacy"] by Robert BlochTony by William Relling Jr.By the Hair of the Head by Joe R. LansdaleRed Light [Ms. Michael Tree] by Max Allan CollinsTaking the Night Train by Thomas F. MonteleoneStoner by William F. NolanIntroduction to Anatomy of a KillerAnatomy of a Killer by Peter RabeNight Walker by Robert J. RandisiDust to Dust by Marcia MullerFaces by F. Paul Wilson

Duffy Omnibus


Dan Kavanagh - 1991
    "Duffy", "Fiddle City", "Going to the Dogs" and "Putting the Boot In"