Mystery Fiction: Novels & Stories
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The Akashic Noir Mystery Stories Series
  | "Baltimore Noir" [16 stories 2006] Edited by Laura Lippman
Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [2006 edition] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [5/2006] for $12.51 brand-new stories by Rafael Alvarez, Jack Bludis, Tim Cockey, Dan Fesperman, Lisa France, Jim Fusilli, Rob Hiassen, editor Lippman, Sujata Massey, Ben Neihart, David Simon, Charlie Stella, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Robert Ward, and Sarah Weinman |
  | "Belfast Noir" [14 stories 2014] Edited by Adrian McKinty & Stuart Neville, Foreword by David Torrans Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [10/2014] for $10.49 Akashic Books 7x5 pb [11/2014] for $12.88 brand-new stories by Alex Barclay, Gerard Brennan, Lucy Caldwell, Steve Cavanagh, Lee Child, Garbhan Downey, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Arlene Hunt, Ian McDonald, Brian McGilloway, Claire McGowan, Eoin McNamee, Sam Millar & Glenn Patterson |
  | "Boston Noir" [11 stories 2009] Edited by Dennis Lehane Kindle Edition from Akashic Noir Series [8/2011] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [11/2009] for $13.95 11 brand-new stories by Russ Aborn, Dana Cameron, Brendan DuBois, John Dufresne, Jim Fusilli, Lynne Heitman, Don Lee, editor Lehane, Itabari Njeri, Stewart O'Nan, and Patricia Powell |
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"Boston Noir 2: The Classics" [14 stories 2012] Edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton & Jaime Clark Kindle Edition from Akashic Noir Series [11/2012] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8x5 pb [11/2012] for $12.47 Akashic Books 8¼x5½ hardcover [11/2012] for $21.56 Boston Globe bestseller; 14 classic reprints from Kenneth Abel, Linda Barnes, Jason Brown, Andre Dubus, George Harrar, George V. Higgins, Chuck Hogan, editor Lehane, Barbara Neely, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, David Ryan, Hannah Tinti, and David Foster Wallace |
  | "Bronx Noir" [19 stories 2007] Edited by S.J. Rozan
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2007] for $13.63 brand-new stories by Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., editor Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace |
  | "Brooklyn Noir" [19 stories 2004] Edited by Tim McLoughlin
Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [7/2004] for $11.17 "Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics" [2005] Edited by Tim McLoughlin Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [6/2005] for $11.96 "Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But The Truth" [2008] Edited by Tim McLoughlin Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [5/2008] for $11.96 |
  | Chicago Noir" [18 stories 2005] Edited by Neal Pollack
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2005] for $12.78 brand-new stories by Jeff Allen, Jim Arndorfer, Daniel Buckman, Todd Dills, Andrew Ervin, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Luciano Guerriero, Kevin Guilfoile, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, M.K. Meyers, Achy Obejas, Bayo Ojikutu, Peter Orner, editor Pollack, Amy Sayre-Roberts, C.J. Sullivan, and Claire Zulkey |
  | "D.C. Noir" [16 stories 2006] Edited by George Pelecanos
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [2/2006] for $12.44 brand-new stories by Robert Andrews, Jim Beane, Ruben Castaneda, Richard Currey, Jim Fusilli, James Grady, Jennifer Howard, Lester Irby, Kenji Jasper, Norman Kelley, Laura Lippman, Jim Patton, editor Pelecanos, Quentin Peterson, David Slater, and Robert Wisdom "D.C. Noir 2: The Classics" [16 stories 2008] Edited by George Pelecanos Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2008] for $12.44 classic reprints from Rhozier 'Roach' Brown, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Marita Golden, James Grady, Elizabeth Hand, Langston Hughes, Edward P. Jones, Ward Just, Julian Mayfield, Julian Mazor, Larry Neal, editor Pelecanos, Benjamin M. Schutz, Ross Thomas, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright |
  | "Detroit Noir" [16 stories 2007] Edited by E.J. Olsen & John C. Hocking Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [11/2007] for $10.17 brand-new stories by Megan Abbott, Craig Bernier, Joe Boland, Desiree Cooper, Loren D. Estleman, Lolita Hernandez, Craig Holden, Roger K. Johnson, M.L. Liebler, Peter Markus, Dorene O'Brien, Joyce Carol Oates, editor Olsen, P.J. Parrish, Nisi Shawl, and Michael Zadoorian |
  | "Dublin Noir" [19 stories 2006] Edited by Ken Bruen
Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [2006 edition] for $9.39 Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [3/2006] for $12.11 brand-new stories by Ray Banks, James O. Born, editor Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Eoin Colfer, Jim Fusilli, Patrick J. Lambe, Laura Lippman, Craig McDonald, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, John Rickards, Peter Spiegelman, Jason Starr, Olen Steinhauer, Charlie Stella, Duane Swierczynski, Sarah Weinman, and Kevin Wignall |
  | "Havana Noir" [18 stories 2007] Edited by Achy Obejas
Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [10/2007] for $12.44 brand-new stories by Alex Abella, Arturo Arango, Lea Aschkenas, Moises Asis, Arnaldo Correa, Mabel Cuesta, Yohamna Depestre, Michel Encinosa Fu, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Pablo Medina, Miguel Mejides, editor Obejas, Oscar F. Ortiz, Leonardo Padura, Mylene Fernandez Pintado, Ena Lucia Portela, Mariela Varona Roque, and 'Yoss' |
  | "Indian Country Noir" [2010] Edited by by Sarah Cortez & Liz Martinez
Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [2/2012] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [6/2010] for $12.06 14 brand-new stories in sections for the Four Directions: authors include Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. Hedgecoke, Gerard Houarner, editor Martinez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melisa Yi |
  | "Istanbul Noir" [16 stories 2008] Edited by Mustafa Ziyalan & Amy Spangler
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [11/2008] for $12.44 brand-new stories by Yasemin Aydinoglu, Tarkan Barlas, Mehmet Bilal, Behcet Celik, Inan Cetin, Ismail Guzelsoy, Hikmet Hukumenoglu, Muge Iplikci, Riza Kirac, Lydia Lunch, Jessica Lutz, Baris Mustecaplioglu, Algan Sezginturedi, Feryal Tilmac, Sadik Yemni, and editor Ziyalan |
  | "Las Vegas Noir" [2008] Edited by Jarret Keene & Todd James Pierce
Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [5/2008] for $10.85 16 brand-new stories by Preston L. Allen, Janet Berliner, Felicia Campbell, David Corbett, Bliss Esposito, Tod Goldberg, Jaq Greenspon, Lori Kozlowski, Christine McKellar, Pablo Medina, John O’Brien, Scott Phillips, Nora Pierce, José Skinner, Celeste Starr, and Vu Tran |
  | "Lone Star Noir" [2010] Edited by Bobby Byrd & John William Byrd
Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [8/2010] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8x5 pb [10/2010] for $11.68 14 brand-new stories in three sections: Gulf Coast, Back Roads, and Big City; authors include Milton T. Burton, editor Bobby Byrd, David Corbett & Luis Alberto Urrea, Sarah Cortez, James Crumley, Dean James, Joe R. Lansdale, Jessica Powers, Ito Romo, Lisa Sandlin, Claudia Smith, Jesse Sublett, Tim Tingle, and George Wier |
  | "London Noir" [17 stories 2006] Edited by Cathi Unsworth
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2006] for $11.66 brand-new stories by Barry Adamson, Desmond Barry, Daniel Bennett, Ken Bruen, Max Décharné, Joolz Denby, Ken Hollings, Stewart Home, Patrick McCabe, Joe McNally, Mark Pilkington, Sylvie Simmons, Jerry Sykes, editor Unsworth, Martyn Waites, Michael Ward, and John Williams |
  | "Los Angeles Noir" [17 stories 2007] Edited by Denise Hamilton
Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [5/2007] for $10.85 brand-new stories by Michael Connelly, Robert Ferrigno, Janet Fitch, editor Hamilton, Naomi Hirahara, Emory Holmes II, Patt Morrison, Jim Pascoe, Gary Phillips, Scott Phillips, Neal Pollack, Christopher Rice, Brian Ascalon Roley, Lienna Silver, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, and Diana Wagman |
  | "Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics" [15 stories 2010] Edited by Denise Hamilton
Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [4/2010] for $10.85 15 classic short stories by authors Leigh Brackett, Kate Braverman, Paul Cain, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, William Campbell Gault, Joseph Hansen, Chester Himes, Naomi Hirahara, Ross Macdonald (“Find The Woman”), Margaret Millar (“The People Across The Canyon”), Walter Mosley (“Crimson Shadow”), Yxta Maya Murray, and Jervey Tervalon |
  | "Manhattan Noir" [15 stories 2006] Edited by Lawrence Block
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [4/2006] for $12.44 brand-new stories by Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, editor Block, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martínez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi "Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics" [20 stories 2008] Edited by Lawrence Block Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2008] for $14.04 20 classic stories & poems by Geoffrey Bartholomew, editor Block, Jerome Charyn, Stephen Crane, Horace Gregory, O. Henry, Clark Howard, Langston Hughes, Evan Hunter, Susan Isaacs, Barry N. Malzberg, Jerrold Mundis, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Damon Runyon, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Donald E. Westlake, Edith Wharton, and Cornell Woolrich |
  | "Mexico City Noir" [12 stories 2010] Edited by Paco Ignacio Taibo II Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [2/2010] for $11.99 brand-new stories by Eugenio Aguirre, Bernardo Fernández Bef, Óscar de la Borbolla, Rolo Díez, Victor Luiz González, F.G. Haghenbeck, Juan Hernández Luna, Myriam Laurini, Eduardo Monteverde, Eduardo Antonia Parra, Julia Rodríguez, and editor Taibo |
  | "Miami Noir" [16 stories 2006] Edited by Les Standiford
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [11/2006] for $12.44 brand-new stories by Kevin Allen, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, David Beaty, John Bond, Tom Corcoran, John Dufresne, Anthony Dale Gagliano, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, James W. Hall, Vicki Hendricks, Christine Kling, Paul Levine, Barbara Parker, George Tucker, and Jeffrey Wehr |
  | "New Orleans Noir" [18 stories 2007] Edited by Julie Smith
Akashic Books 8½x5¼ pb [4/2007] for $10.85 brand-new stories by Thomas Adcock, Ace Atkins, Patty Friedmann, David Fulmer, Barbara Hambly, Greg Herren, Laura Lippman, Tim McLoughlin, James Nolan, Ted O'Brien, Eric Overmyer, Jeri Cain Rossi, editor Smith, Maureen Tan, Jervey Tervalon, Olympia Vernon, Christine Wiltz, and Kalamu Ya Salaam |
  | "Orange County Noir" [14 stories 2010] Edited by Gary Phillips, Foreword by T. Jefferson Parker Kindle Edition from Akashic Noir Series [6/2012] for $8.75 Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [4/2010] for $14.84 14 brand-new stories by Mary Castillo, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Dan Duling, Robert S. Levinson, Dick Lochte, Lawrence Maddox, Gordon McAlpine, Patricia McFall, editor Phillips, Rob Roberge, Martin J. Smith, Susan Straight, Nathan Walpow, and Robert Ward |
  | "Paris Noir" [12 stories 2008] Edited by Aurélien Masson
Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [11/2008] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [11/2008] for $15.95 brand-new stories by Salim Bachi, Didier Daeninckx, 'D.O.A.', Jerome Leroy, Dominique Mainard, Laurent Martin, Christophe Mercier, Patrick Pecherot, Chantal Pelletier, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Herve Prudon, and Marc Villard |
  | "Prison Noir" [15 stories 2014] Edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [8/2014] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2014] for $15.95 Akashic Books 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2014] for $26.95 15 brand-new stories by: Eric Boyd, Kenneth R. Brydon, Zeke Caligiuri, B.M. Dolarman, Stephen Geez, Scott Gutches, Linda Michelle Marquardt, Bryan K. Palmer, Timothy Pauley, Ali F. Sareini, Sin Soracco, Christopher M. Stephen, William Van Poyck, Marco Verdoni, and Andre White |
  | "Wall Street Noir" [18 stories 2007] Edited by Peter Spiegelman
Kindle Edition from Akashic Books [2007 edition] for $9.99 Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [6/2007] for $15.95 18 brand-new stories by: Megan Abbott, Richard Aleas, Charles Ardai, Peter Blauner, Henry Blodget, Tim Broderick, John Burdett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Jim Fusilli, James Hime, Lawrence Light, David Noonan, Twist Phelan, Stephen Rhodes, Lauren Sanders, Mark Haskell Smith, editor Spiegelman, and Jason Starr |
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's 'A Pocketful of Brits' Pages
Mini-Mystery Books
  | "Five Minute Mysteries: 37 Challenging Cases of Murder and Mayhem For You To Solve" [1989] by Ken Weber
Running Press pb [5/89] for $8.95 Allison & Busby pb [3/2002] out of print/used Running Press book & cassette [6/94] out of print/used Brilliance ABR audio [10/93] out of print/used |
  | "More Five Minute Mysteries: 34 New Cases of Murder and Mayhem For You To Solve" [1991] by Ken Weber
Running Press pb [10/91] for $8.95 Running Press book & cassette [4/96] out of stock/used Brilliance ABR audio [4/95] out of stock/used |
  | "Further Five-Minute Mysteries: 30 New Cases" [1994] by Ken Weber Running Press pb [10/94] for $8.95 |
  | "Even More Five-Minute Mysteries: 40 New Cases of Murder and Mayhem For You To Solve" [1996] by Ken Weber
Running Press pb [9/96] for $8.95 |
  | "Five-Minute Whodunits" [1997] by Stan Smith Sterling pb [6/97] for $6.95 |
  | "Five-Minute Crimebusters: Clever Mini-Mysteries" [2000] by Stan Smith Sterling pb [3/2000] for $6.95 |
  | "Five-Minute Mini-Mysteries" [2003] by Stan Smith Sterling pb [3/2003] for $6.95 |
Periodicals
"Spicy Detective Stories" [May 1989]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0944735118
Around 2008, John Gunnison's Adventure House (based in Maryland) published a series of 10"x7" facsimiles of 1930s & 1940s pulp detective magazines,
many of which are still in print in 2014; authors include Robert L. Bellem; magazines include All Detective Magazine, Double Action Detective,
Private Detective Magazine, Star Detective Magazine, Spicy Detective Stories, and Thrilling Detective Magazine
http://www.amazon.com/Spicy-Detective-Stories-09-38/dp/1597980986/
  | "The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories" [2010] Edited & with Foreword by Otto Penzler, Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch featured authors include: Katherine Brocklebank (“Bracelets”); Raymond Chandler (“Try The Girl”); George Harmon Coxe ("Fall Guy"); Carroll John Daly ("Knights of the Open Palm"); Lester Dent (“Luck”, the early, unpublished draft of his oft-anthologized “Sail”); Erle Stanley Gardner ("Come and Get It"); William Campbell Gault ("The Bloody Bokhara"); Frank Gruber ("Ask Me Another"); Brett Halliday ("A Taste for Cognac"); Dashiell Hammett (the serial version of "Maltese Falcon", which is quite different from the book); C.M. Kornbluth ("Beer-Bottle Polka"); John D. MacDonald ("Murder in One Syllable"); Horace McCoy ("Dirty Work"); Richard Sale ("The Dancing Rats"); Raoul Whitfield (novel "Murder In The Ring" with Filipino detective Jo Gar, first book publication); and Cornell Woolrich ("Borrowed Crime"); other authors include: Cleve F. Adams, Dwight V. Babcock, W.T. Ballard, Wyatt Blassingame, Charles G. Booth, Fredric Brown, Walter C. Brown, Hugh B. Cave, Whitman Chambers, D.L. Champion, Dale Clark, William Cole, Peter Collinson, Richard Connell, Merle Constiner, Ray Cummings, Frederick C. Davis, Norbert Davis, Ramon Decolta, Richard Deming, Bruno Fischer, Steve Fisher, Charles M. Green, Day Keene, Julius Long, Don M. Mankiewicz, Frederick Nebel, Milton K. Ozaki, Norvell Page, Talmadge Powell, Robert Reeves, William Rollins Jr., Hank Searls, Stewart Sterling, H.H. Stinson, Theodore A. Tinsley, and Thomas Walsh Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [5/2012] for $11.99 Vintage/Black Lizard 9x7 pb [9/2010] for $19.17 |
  | "Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction" Magazine [est. 2011] Edited by by Eddie Vega no entry at Wikipedia • official website Issue #1: Kindle Edition from VegaWire Media [12/2013] for $2.99 Issue #2: Kindle Edition from VegaWire Media [12/2013] for $2.99 Issue #3 - India: Kindle Edition from Noir Nation [9/2013] for $2.99 Issue #3 - India: CreateSpace 9x6 pb [10/2013] for $13.99 Issue #4 - Canada: Kindle Edition from Noir Nation [3/2014] for $2.99 Issue #4 - Canada: VegaWire Media/Noir Nation 9x6 pb [8/2014] for $10.83 Issue #5 - Jihad: Kindle Edition from Noir Nation [10/2014] for $2.99 Issue #5 - Jihad: VegaWire Media/Noir Nation 9x6 pb [10/2014] for $12.00 Issue #6 - Jazz: Kindle Edition from Noir Nation [9/2017] for $2.99 Issue #6 - Jazz: Noir Nation 9x6 pb [9/2017] for $12.00 Issue #7 - Golden Fedora: Kindle Edition from Noir Nation [4/2019] for $2.99 Issue #7 - Golden Fedora: VegaWire Media/Noir Nation 9x6 pb [4/2019] for $12.00 |
  | "The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries" [2014] Edited & with Introduction by Otto Penzler "68 of the best of the best", in more than 900 pages; authors include Margery Allingham, E.C. Bentley, Lawrence Block, Fredric Brown, John Dickson Carr, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot), Wilkie Collins, Edmund Crispin, Carter Dickson, Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Lord Dunsany, Stanley Ellin, R. Austin Freeman, Jacques Futrelle (2), Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett (Continental Op), Edward D. Hoch (2), Michael Innes, McKinlay Kantor, H.R.F. Keating, Stephen King, John Lutz, Edgar Allan Poe, Melville Davisson Post (2), Bill Pronzini, Ellery Queen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georges Simenon (Jules Maigret), Manly Wade Wellman, P.G. Wodehouse — and many more Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [10/2014] for $10.99 Vintage pb [10/2014] for $18.63 |
  | "The Best of Manhunt: A Collection of The Best of Manhunt Magazine" [2019]  Edited & with Introduction by Jeff Vorzimmer, Foreword by Lawrence Block, Afterword by Barry N. Malzberg The acknowledged successor to Black Mask Magazine, Manhunt Magazine first appeared on newsstands in late 1952 and lasted 14 years; here are 39 of its original stories, by a veritable Who’s Who of the world’s greatest mystery writers, including: David Alexander, Lawrence Block, Gil Brewer, Fredric Brown, Erskine Caldwell, Jonathan Craig, Richard Deming, Harlan Ellison, Hal Ellson, Fletcher Flora, Steve Frazee, David Goodis, Clark Howard, Frank Kane, John D. MacDonald, Harold Q. Masur, Ed McBain, Helen Nielsen, Talmage Powell, Richard S. Prather, Craig Rice, Jack Ritchie, Henry Slesar, Mickey Spillane, Robert Turner, Donald E. Westlake, Harry Whittington Kindle Edition from Stark House Press [8/2019] for $5.99 Stark House Press 8½x5½ pb [7/2019] for $21.95 |
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Selected Mystery Novels •• Mysteries by Well-Known Authors
on Page Two: top of page •• Mystery Story Anthologies •• Winter's Crimes Series
here on Page Three: top of page •• Akashic Noir Mysteries •• Mini-Mysteries •• Periodicals
on Page Four: top of page •• Kindle Editions
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