Frank Carlson Library

Another case has fallen onto the desk of Tootsie Carter; a female detective armed with a snub-nosed Colt .38, unmatchable wit, and a pocketful of Tootsie Rolls. New York City, 1975 A missing wife. The seedy underbelly of the boxing world. Lace your gloves and ring the bell, PI Tootsie Carter is on the case. When a desperate man stumbles into her office, pleading for help locating his wife, Tootsie launches into the investigation. Following the clues,...

In Akashic Books's acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. This collection of classic stories-the sequel to the award-winning, bestselling Los Angeles Noir-"reaffirm{s} that the shadows cast by the Southland's sun, and its gloomy ocean fog, have proved some of noir's most fertile territory" (Los Angeles Times). This anthology...

His dream was Eden Park - Number 10 jersey. His nightmare Mt Eden Prison - cell block 10 with a promising All Black rugby career shattered. A sentence of a life behind bars can do much to change a man's thinking. 'A grave miscarriage of justice,' were the words on the paper the Minister of Justice had handed to Terry Stamp when it was decided after fourteen years of incarceration he had not killed his wife. 'Go home, my man. Start your life again....

Counterfeit, first published in 1933, features private investigator Peter Clancy, assisted by his valet Wiggars. Author Emma Redington Lee Thayer (1874-1973) published 60 novels during her long career, all but one featuring detective Peter Clancy. From the dustjacket: "Three men are dining together in a brilliant New York restaurant. Red-headed Peter Clancy, private investigator, is host. Raymond Trant, of the Secret Service, and Captain of Detectives...

Une enquête autour de trois faits divers, trois parcours cabossés, trois vies brisées. Prier pour le meilleur, se préparer au pire ! Quel lien existe-t-il entre Kamel, jeune Marseillais d'une vingtaine d'années, Sabrina, femme de ménage à Valenciennes, et Grégor, ouvrier d'abattage près de Lorient… Entre les tragédies de notre temps et les personnages laminés par le monde d'aujourd'hui se tisse la chronique d'une époque o les destins...

Anthony Carrick's demons are starting to haunt him. With the urging of his love, Dr. Emily Stratham, he's gone to see a psychiatrist.Now the psychiatrist wants Anthony's help in investigating the disappearance of the psychiatrist's childhood friend.In Corpus Christi, this friend, Phil Guston, who was a semi-pro surfer, has everything to seemingly live for. But a beautiful wife, a clutch of surf shops he's opened with another childhood friend seem...

Mike Shayne battles blackmailers to recover a valuable missing bracelet The picture in the paper shows one of the most beautiful women in Miami wearing nothing more than a negligee. She's in her boudoir, posing for police photographers, pointing to where her emerald bracelet used to be. The bauble is worth $110,000, and whoever took it is either brave, crazy, or stupid, because Laura Peralta's husband is the second most dangerous man in Miami. The...

This is one family's hazardous journey from Sudan to the United Kingdom. Rape, prostitution and death are common place. Fortunes are paid to make the journey but that is only a small price to pay for what eventually happens to this family. Jack Turner and Mel Doyle use SF20 resources to track down the gangs running these illegal operations. What they find is criminals protected by officials that use their power and influence to line their pockets...

The Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark ("The Kid") who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master ("The Man"). From the dust-jacket: "By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man... From Jolly's Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Sprügi's...

Un oncle inconnu lègue à Nicolas Lurquin, un père de famille à la vie simple, une somme proche des 10 millions d'euros. Une aventure étrange débute alors, autour d'une usurpation d'identité soudaine et étrange! Nicolas Lurquin mène la vie paisible d'un bon père de famille près de Bruxelles. Un jour, il reçoit l'e-mail d'un notaire de Montpellier l'invitant à l'ouverture du testament de son oncle Guillaume Faviau. Bien que ce nom lui...