Stark House Press

The first two Whitney Logan mysteries, set in gritty 1990's L.A. and originally published in 1991 and 1996.Author: Mercedes Lambert, Ken BruenPublisher: Stark House PressPublication Date: May 05,...

DR. GATSKILL'S BLUE SHOESPeter Hanley is a cop. Right now, he's an inmate in a mental institution. It's either the mental institution or prison. You see, Peter may have killed someone, a woman with...

DRINK WITH THE DEADThe bootlegging operation in Northern California is producing fine liquor while undercutting the competition and avoiding government taxes. So Purvis sends a couple of his Treasury...

DWELLERS OF THE DEEPIzzinius Fox is a particularly avid collector of Tremendous Science Fiction magazine. He is also in regular contact with the Rhelm, who repeatedly zap him instantaneously up to...

The story of Frank Ross, a journalist who is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison where he forms a friendship with a notorious gangster named 'Hood' Stacey, who helps him escape.Long out of...

The story of a young L.A. defense attorney, deadened to the desperate world of her clients and filled with self-loathing, who gradually finds a measure of compassion for life. Originally published in...

A change of pace for Chase, with a couple of downbeat crime stories about men who are in love with dangerous, destructive women. "An intelligent and harshly revealing piece of work."-The Times...

EVIL INTENTIONS COMEWhen Pete Scarcelli agrees to represent sultry Justine Kingman in divorcing her husband Ben-the richest man in town-he has no idea what he's getting into. But he soon finds out...

A Collection of Murder Tales from Patrick Quentin...The Jack of Diamonds: Starner had something on each of them. So Vanderloon sent them all an invitation that included the handwritten phrase "to...

FALLEN ANGELEric Stanton is a drifter and a con artist. After he gets kicked off a bus from L.A., he finds himself in the small coastal town of Walton. This is where he meets Stella, a local waitress...

After getting arrested for petty burglary as a teenager, Braly couldn't get a break and spent much of his life behind bars. This is his searing autobiography, from the author of Shake Him Till He...

Abby Marquise and the Society for the Security of Reality are up against a group of rogue selkies in this modern dark fantasy set in Chicago.Author: Catherine Butzen, Cynthia L. Shepard, Cynthia L...

FINAL WAR ... IN THE POCKET... 26 science fiction stories written by Barry N. Malzberg in the late 1960s and early 1970s under his pen-name K. M. O'Donnell. Ace Books published the two collections as...

Two powerful noir thrillers written during the height of Gil Brewer's career in the 1950s. The first is a psychological sex drama involving a pair of World War II veterans and a femme fatale; and the...

FOOLS WALK INWhat do you do when you're an English professor living with his needy sister and you pick up a young lady on the run who wants your company? You've played it safe all your life. You've...

Author: Dolores HitchensPublisher: Stark House PressPublication Date: Jul 24, 2020Number of Pages: 284 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944520937ISBN-13: 9781944520939

FORGET MY FATESpecial Agent Eric Lund is in Northern Minnesota at Camp Midaywin, but he's not vacationing. He's there to investigate a lead on someone who is trying to blackmail a U.S. senator. What...

Two classic mysteries from the golden age of paperback publishing, originally published by Graphic Books and Lion Books in 1949 and 1951, and unavailable since then.Author: Day KeenePublisher: Stark...

FREAKSHOWBat Fidler has always been a loner, never able to fit in with other people. Then he lands a wrestling job at a carnival sideshow. That's where he meets Emmy, a scrappy stripper, and Fish...

FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MINDJohnny Price first meets the little old man at the scene of a streetside murder. The little man confesses that it was he who shot the man, and Johnny figures he's...

Two novels originally published as paperback "adult books" by Nightstand and Midnight Reader and written pseudonymously by Robert Silverberg. Gang Girl is the story of a girl who thought she could...

A combination of one of Oppenheim's very rare romantic thrillers from 1896, The Modern Prometheus, coupled with another collection of twelve previously unpublished stories and autobiographic pieces,...

GHOSTS OF SOCIETY There are seven of them, seven of the cleverest, brightest individuals in British society, and they call themselves "the Ghosts." Jaded by life, suffering an ennui of the soul, they...

The third and final Whitney Logan mystery set in 1990s L.A. and published posthumously after the death of the author in 2003.Author: Mercedes Lambert, Michael ConnellyPublisher: Stark House...

Two character-driven mysteries, subtle masterpieces of psychological suspense. The first novel deals with the murder of a woman whom everyone in town hates, the second concerns a murder that is...

Two historical mysteries set in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Graves' Retreat being about a man whose past catches up with him when his bank robbing brother comes to town, and Night of Shadows the story of an...

GRIM REHEARSALPress agent Pierce Kirby is thrilled when his Uncle Doc visits, and takes him that night to a Manhattan play. They all know Pierce at the theater, so he takes his uncle backstage to...

One thing for certain, Tasker was considerably more adept at writing than he was at armed robbery. On St. Valentine's Day, 1924, Tasker walked into Sauer's Dance Parlor in Oakland, California and...

GUTTER ROADIf only Fred Bauman hadn't stopped that rainy night and offered the young woman a ride, his life wouldn't be such a hell now. How was he to know that Joanne was working a con on him when...

The experiences in this surprising book are drawn directly from the daily life of a New York taxicab driver in good standing. Mr. Hazard has been "hacking" the city for almost nine years.He deals...