Black Curtain Press

A collection of six classic tales featuring hard-boiled ex-cop Donny Donahue, who now works for the Interstate Detective Agency. These stories ran in Black Mask magazine between 1931 and 1932. This...

Energetic sleuth David Carroll, whose probe into police corruption has made him unpopular at headquarters, is put in charge of an investigation into the shooting murder of civic reformer Edward...

She was an expensive call girl and spending a night with her came high. But he never figured on a price as high as murder. The photograph did justice to her generous statistics. Any private eye would...

The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companion-ships which recently...

He stands before the court. The crime: Murder in the First Degree. The victime: his wife. They said he killed her. They didn't say why.Author: Harold R. DanielsPublisher: Black Curtain...

From the creator of Charlie Chan! Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what...

Duncan Maclain is in Tampa with his wife, Sybella, and his partner, Spud Savage and his wife, Rena, to visit with old friends and investigate a murder. It has been seven years since his old friend,...

The sixth book in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike, in which the doctor travels to Wales to compete with another smuggler.Author: Russell ThorndykePublisher: Black Curtain...

One day several years ago, when Mr. Lowes Dickinson's statement that he had found no conversation and-worse still-no conversationalists in America was fresh in our outraged minds, I happened to meet...

"James Meredith, you have been convicted after a long and patient trial of the awful crime of wilful murder. With the verdict of the jury I am in complete agreement. There is little doubt, after...

Two men are killed outside the Grand Cafe on Amsterdam Avenue. There's no connection between them, but the widow of one hires Barney Harris, a 250-pound auto mechanic, to sniff out police corruption...

The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil. There was the arsonist, the safe blower,...

The Big Fix by Ed Lacy Author of the 1958 Edgar Award-winning novel Room to Swing! On the night Irish Tommy Cork's murder was planned, nothing very much out of the ordinary happened. Tommy was in the...

HELP ME FOR GODS SAKE Later the doctors would use these words to decipher the riddle of a perverted killer. Right now, the lipstick scrawl signaled the start of New York's greatest manhunt.Author:...

The 1960 Sleaze-Noir classic! Clint Mayer is a big man with big dreams. Or so he thinks. When Clint leaves Beaverkill for the rough and tumble dock town of Wilton, he hooks up with Charlie Fletcher,...

Alan Douglas found himself in a macabre masquerade that could only have one ending-murder. He wore another man's face. He lived with another man's woman. And he was to die another man's death.Author:...

There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. This is the justification for the Council of Justice-a meeting of great and passionless intellects...

Complete and unabridged. The Count of Monte Cristo takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815-1838, beginning from just before the Hundred...

Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn is the fifth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndyke. Like the previous volume it is an episodic collection of adventures. It follows Syn's...

Collected here are twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric stories. Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before. A new strong, confident voice has arrived...

Collected here are twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric stories. Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before. A new strong, confident voice has arrived...

New affordable edition of the first collected stories of Trent Zelazny. Includes the original twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric tales published in 2009, plus two newly added yarns excavated from...

Originally published in 1941. The nightmare tale of the life and death of Dillon, American gangster. From the first to the last page, the ruthlessness of an inhuman killer is set down with stark...

The story of a young girl caught in the dreadful fascination of willing slavery, the agony of a conscious victim who cannot escape the mordant mastery of an egomaniac practicing unknown horrors...

A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead. The book was the basis of the film...

1948 Edgar Award Winner! Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training...

The Statute was knee-high, but it carried a fortune in gold and gems, plus centuries of fame in the art world. Everyone wanted it, and for some no price was too high-love, money, or murder... then...

Fourth in the series of Doctor Syn novels, following the events of Doctor Syn Returns, Syn, in his guise as the Scarecrow outwits the king's agents and keeps his band of Dymchurch smugglers out of...

Garth, in response to the unforeseen summons, hurried along the hallway and opened the inspector's door. As he faced the rugged figure behind the desk, and gazed into those eyes whose somnolence...

Who? Who out of all the men in her past could have hated Frieda enough to kill? With which one had she been the impetuous-and the dangerous-mistress?Author: George Harmon CoxePublisher: Black Curtain...