The Drowning Pool (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Ross Macdonald
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the S ...Show more
Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
Two secret agents living in the English countryside try - and fail - to live a quiet life, in these hugely enjoyable crime storiesBehrens and Calder are two secret agents living in the English countryside, desperately seeking a quiet life. But despite their best efforts, they find themselves repeatedly ...Show more
SS-GB (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime seriesIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job ...Show more
The Night of the Hunter (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Davis Grubb
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A rediscovered diabolical slice of great American noir'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?'One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentl ...Show more
In a Lonely Place (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Dorothy B. Hughes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A chilling, stylish piece of LA noirAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women. Bumping into an old friend, now a detective working on the case, Dix is thrilled by closely following the progress of the police. And meeting his new n ...Show more
Other Paths to Glory by Anthony Price
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1974 classicPaul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence of the library. But his peace is shattered by an unexpected visit from a man with a fragment of a German trench map - and a lot of ...Show more
All Shot Up by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York Times A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important ...Show more
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Chester Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
Scams, heists and murders abound in a high-energy caper from one of the great Black American crime writers, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope- the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when ...Show more
The Real Cool Killers by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday Times The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for ...Show more
The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave D ...Show more
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Crime & Espionage Classics) by Raymond Chandler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip MarloweRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colour ...Show more
Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
A darkly comic thriller following a cynical LA gumshoe who makes the catastrophic mistake of helping a 14-year-old find her dog . . .Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading 14-year-old living in LA who has lost her dog. She asks private investigator Leo Bloodworth to help her find the missi ...Show more