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Все мы хорошо знаем великого кинорежиссера, мастера триллера Алфреда Хичкока. Однако немногим известно, что Хичкок многие годы собирал страшные истории, придуманные американскими писателями, и составлял сборники детективов, которые были очень популярны в Америке. Составительская работа помогала Хичкоку в его основном деле — кино, литература подсказывала сюжеты и характеры для будущих фильмов.

В этой книге отобраны детективные рассказы из разных сборников А. Хичкока.

Книге предпослана вступительная статья Ю. Комова, рассказывающая о жизни и творчестве А. Хичкока.

Dead Skip is the first novel in a remarkable new series Ellery Queen calls “authentic as a fist in your face.” With it, Joe Gores, the double Edgar-winner who spent twelve years as a private investigator, shows just how fresh and compelling the detective novel really can be.

In 1953 Pierce Duncan leaves college as an innocent and sets off to see America. His road trip will take him from the savagery of a Georgia chain gang to a wild ride through Texas to the darkest side of the Las Vegas fight game — and, finally, to San Francisco, the far end of the world. Along the backstreets and freight lines Dunc will meet beautiful women, dangerous men, and murder. And in California, home of the lost and the outcast, he will join up with the dynamic head of a private investigation agency. Here he will learn everything about being a man — and about brutal betrayal. Joe Gores has written a violence-marked love letter to a lost time in America, and a San Francisco roiling with the unexpected. With Dunc’s mind teeming with the cadences of Hemingway and Joyce. CASES is also an ode to the art of writing itself: writing as vivid as a lightning storm over a lonely highway, as unforgettable as a first kiss, as haunting as a dead woman’s eyes.

Life is a wondrous game for twenty-eight-year-old Eddie Dain. There’s phone chess with his beautiful wife, Marie. There’s the joy of his three-year old son. There’s his career using software to ferret out soft-core bad guys without ever leaving his computer. But when Eddie decides that a seemingly accidental death was no accident at all, it all blows up in his face. A new and shadowy enemy sends out two killers with shotguns. When they are through with him, Eddie has to be reborn. As a dead man. He’s dead to joy, dead to his past. Loveless and obsessed, he goes by the single name of Dain, lives with a cat who won’t purr, and thumbs through a bloodstained copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Building up his body and an arsenal of lethal skills that Eddie never had, Dain hires himself out as a manhunter — because somewhere out there in an underworld of criminals and contract killers are the two men who destroyed his life. Dain’s break comes in Chicago, leads him to a beautiful stripper in New Orleans, and plunges him into the steaming swamps of the Louisiana bayou country. There, Dain will get his chance to separate truths from lies, traitors from friends, the living from the dead...

A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to , featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade.

It’s 1921 — seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn’t do domestic) and hiring a bright young secretary named Effie Perrine. When he’s hired by a prominent San Francisco banker to find his missing son, Spade gets the break he’s been looking for. He spends the next few years dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, and bumbling cops. He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help bolster the agency, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who holds a long-standing grudge against Spade. And, of course, he’ll fall in love — though it won’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames.

Заключенный сбежал из тюрьмы, чтобы проводить умирающего отца.

Герой романа «Время хищников», университетский профессор Халстед, вернувшись ночью домой, обнаруживает, что его жена, Паула, став жертвой насилия, покончила с собой. Муж жаждет отмщения и наконец выходит на след шайки юных бездельников из весьма благополучных семей…

В романе «Замурованный труп» рассказывается об опасной, полной неожиданностей работе сотрудников частного сыскного агентства «Керни и компаньоны».