Black Curtain Press

In 1758 in the church of San Lorenzo in Naples where Vincentio di Vivaldi sees the beautiful Ellena di Rosalba with her aunt, Signora Bianchi. Vivaldi is struck with her beauty, and intends to court...

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a foolproof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. Two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a...

Old Cleave should have known better than to use a whip. But no man ever knew what Beth would do. Her father suspected that she enjoyed killing. Her husband learned the truth too late. And I saw it...

Once he had belonged to the stark and brutal days, days of manhunts and sudden violence. Now Owen Toller had a farm and a family. Until the Brunner brothers came down from the hills-to murder and...

Over the course of three years, Henry David Thoreau made three trips into the widely unexplored woods of Maine, taking notes constantly, acutely observing the rivers, the lakes, the mountains, the...

Originally published in 1953. City detective McCallister, who is incorruptible, Ahern, whom he protects, and Sheridan, whom he dislikes, are assigned to the long vigil to pull in Harry Wheeler-a bank...

With a beautiful country guesthouse for background, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding draws the reader into the sinister web of fear and terror that holds the occupants of the house in its grasp. Van Cleef,...

Nobel Prize laureate Anatole France's The Revolt of the Angels, often considered his most profound novel, tells the story of Arcade, the guardian angel of Maurice d'Esparvieu, who falls in love and...

An expanded version of Doctor Syn Returns, retitled The Scarecrow Rides, published 1935. Third in the series of Doctor Syn novels. Syn, who has tired of piracy, tries to settle down as the vicar of...

It was the figure of a girl, her arms thrust out to ward off the ripper... her body distorted, rigid with terror... her mouth open in a silent, eternal scream. Originally published in 1949.Author:...

Seventh and last in the series of Doctor Syn novels, set during the events of the French Revolution and part of the action has Syn rescuing people from the Reign of Terror in the style of the Scarlet...

This is the story of three men under pressure-a bank teller, a salesman, and a handyman. They are neither psychopaths not professional criminals, yet together they plan to carry out the most immoral...

I married Diana because she was an exciting, reckless witch of a woman. And it didn't hurt that she had all that money. I also loved her, even though a kind of pall of violence hung around her...

The legendary 1952 dystopian/alternative history novel about British naval lieutenant Alan Querdillon, who becomes a POW during the Battle of Crete during World War II, and awakens in a...

The story that follows this introduction is literally true. There died lately, in a Western State prison, a man of the class known as habitual criminals. He was, at the time of his death, serving out...

An investigation into a suicide leads to an investigation of murder. Holding's rarest mystery. First published in 1937.Author: Elisabeth Sanxay HoldingPublisher: Black Curtain PressPublication Date:...

"ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE!" D'Artagnan and his three pals follow a course of swashbuckling intrigue and adventure in 17th-centry France. The Three Musketeers is a tale for all time. Heroic young...

The Web of the Golden Spider is a truly thrilling adventure. Starting in Boston and plunging through the mountains of South America, we encounter a revolution in a South American state; a buried...

Mysterious death, suicide, and madness took uncanny toll of New York's most prominent citizens. Only the Spider sensed the presence of the criminal genius whose tentacles were strangling the city-...

Kerwhop! 11 classic Willie Klump Tales! BIRD CAGEY: A Fowl in the Hand May Be Worth Two in the Hedge, But Willie Klump Goes After Two Jailbirds with One Grindstone! DUMB IN THE WORD FOR WILLIE: The...

Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, 'in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being.' You will be enchanted by...

I'm George Jackson. And this began about the time when you could still remember getting on the subway for a nickel, people were just starting to worry about the water shortage, and the current...

When three small-time country gangsters break jail, they return to the only life they know-small-town bank robbing. When Bowie, the youngest of them, falls in love wit Keechie, one of the older...

You never can tell what a big, tough Polish boy will do when he finds a nude blonde in his bathroom. Especially if he is a heavyweight fighter who was born back of the yards, is married to a million...

When career criminal Jack Dempster gets caught and put away for five years in prison, he finds time to seriously reconsider his chosen line of work. Before he can make any serious decision, some old...

I found my love, a tall golden girl, in the cruel, thousand-angled city that was Tokyo, mid-occupation, death-hungry for Mate Buchanan. I am Buchanan. Mate Buchanan, that is, ex-G.I., court marshal...

If only he hadn't found the hat. Or the dead guy. Or the steamer trunk. Or the rag doll. If only he hadn't found any of these things, everything might have been okay. But he had found them. All of...

I picked up a copy of the L.A. Times and turned to "Help Wanted." It came out and slapped me in the face, a big box advertisement: CHAUFFEUR To drive new Rolls Royce saloon and Jaguar XK 120 coupe...

Originally published in 1943, the retelling of the world of Dutch Schultz. Classic novel later made into the classic Film Noir Force of Evil, with John Garfield.Author: Ira WolfertPublisher: Black...

Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler's craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a...