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Tales of the Silencer: The Complete Series

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Tales of the Silencer: The Complete Series
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This series of high octane adventure stories by two-time Hugo finalist Cora Buhlert is an homage to the heroic pulp crimefighters of the 1930s such as the Shadow, the Spider and Doc Savage as well as the writers who brought them to life.

Hardworking pulp writer by day and steel-masked crimefighter by night, the Silencer fights criminal low-lives and larger-than-life master villains in the streets of Depression era New York City. Together with his beautiful fiancée Constance Allen and pickpocket turned butler Neal Cassidy, Richard Blakemore a.k.a. the Silencer keeps the city safe from those criminals the law cannot catch.

This complete omnibus edition of 112000 words or approximately 375 print pages collects the entire Silencer series.

The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)

The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)
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The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister’s son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed.

But the dead girl’s father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

Jack Hagee: No Free Lunch (Jack Hagee, Private Eye Book 1)

Jack Hagee: No Free Lunch (Jack Hagee, Private Eye Book 1)
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Bold Venture Press presents the first installment in the Jack Hagee, Private Eye series.

When Carl Miller’s fiancee disappears, her trail leads him to New York City, and the office of private investigator Jack Hagee. Taking the case against his better judgement, Hagee quickly finds himself in the center of a circle of blood, with the corpses piling up fast. Now he must rescue poor little runaway Mara Phillips to avoid landing in the slaughter pit. But he wonders if she’s worth rescuing …
“Henderson has taken the quintessential noir detective and skin-grafted him onto the palette of despair and decay and degeneracy that is Today.”
Hardboiled Magazine

4 recent full length pulp hard-boiled noir detective novels by C.J. Henderson

amazon doesn’t show them as a series here in order :

 

The Arkham Detective Collection

The Arkham Detective Collection
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“Some cities grew; Arkham just festered,” so said the hard-boiled police detective that oversees the Mythos Division, a department that is mandated, by his superiors, to investigate things that go bump in the night . . . Lovecraftian things!

The Arkham Detective hunts down oddities that are misshapen, vague or unseen, and at other times, material horrors, all of which usually leave bloody trails wherever they go.

Byron Craft has mastered Cthulhu Mythos pulp stories set during the era of the Great Depression. His nameless plainclothes officer pursues ungodly terrors in four riveting stories that propel the reader through Arkham, Innsmouth, Dunwich and, of course, Miskatonic University. Lovecraft and detective fans alike will enjoy this collection.

Legends of New Pulp Fiction

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LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION • Publisher – Airship 27 Productions • Editor – Ron FortierAssistant Editors – Todd Jones – Jaime RamosArt Director – Rob DavisCover Painter – Douglas Klauba • Collected within these two covers are sixty fantastic stories of action, adventure, mystery, horror, fantasy and suspense. It is a treasure chest of the best of the New Pulp Movement, the fastest growing style of fiction writing in world today. And all of it generated as a benefit project . Sixty writers and thirty six artists have pooled their talents to produce a volume like none other ever conceived before. If you are unfamiliar with New Pulp, then look no further than this one book. Then buckle up and enjoy the ride.

The Stein & Candle Detective Agency

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Morton Candle is a tough guy.

He grew up on the streets of Brooklyn, dodging from mobster-ruled neighborhoods to reform school before the army snapped him up and sent him to Europe to fight Hitler. That’s where he met Weatherby Stein, the scion to one of the greatest occult families of Europe. Weatherby and his parents were being held prisoner by the Nazis, forced to use their supernatural knowledge to aid the Third Reich’s war effort.

Now it’s the 1950s.

Reminiscent of old timey detective fiction, these seven creepy crime stories revolve around amateur sleuths from opposite sides of the pond – poor brawny American/rich brainey Brit – and their passion for pursuing paranormal perps of all stripes. Vampires. Hoodoo. Undead. All the crazy of a thriller saturated in deep dark noir enui.

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Hard Magic: Book I of the Grimnoir Chronicles

Hard Magic: Book I of the Grimnoir Chronicles
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Jake Sullivan is a war hero, a private eye-and an ex-con. He’s free because he has a magical talent, being able to alter the force of gravity in himself and objects in his vicinity, and the Bureau of Investigation calls on him when they need his help in apprehending criminals with their own magical talents.

But the last operation he was sent along to help with went completely wrong, and Delilah Jones, the woman the G-men were after, who just happened to be an old friend of Jake’s in happier times, had a lot of magical muscle with her, too much muscle for the cops to handle, even with Jake’s help.

It got worse. Jake found out that the Feds had lied to him about Delilah being a murderer as well as a bank robber, and they had lied about this being his last job for them-he was too valuable for them to let him go. And things were even worse than Jake imagined. There was a secret war being waged by opposing forces of magic-users, and Jake had no idea that he had just attracted the attention of one side, whose ruthless leaders were of the opinion that Jake was far too dangerous to be permitted to live…

The Gone World

The Gone World
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1997. Shannon Moss of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL’s family – and to locate the soldier’s missing teenage daughter.

When Moss discovers that the SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra – a ship assumed lost to the darkest currents of Deep Time – she comes to believe that the SEAL’s experience with the future is somehow related to this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection to her own past, Moss must travel forward in time to seek evidence that will uncover the truth.

To her horror, the future reveals that it’s not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work; for what she witnesses is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. Edge-of-your-seat crime fiction that bends both time and mind. Think True Detective meets 12 Monkeys. Throw in the end of the world and you can begin to imagine where this gut-twisting tale will take you. — Publisher’s description.

Death Warmed Over: The Cases of Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.

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Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves and other undead denizens on the world, it’s been hell for zombie P.I. Dan Chambeau who works with a human lawyer as his partner.

His cases now include a resurrected mummy that is suing the museum that put him on display, two witches that were victims of a curse gone terribly wrong seek restitution from a publisher for not using “spell check” on its magical tomes.

And Dan must also find out who caused his own death.

The Dark Side of the Road (ISHMAEL JONES serie)

The Dark Side of the Road
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ISHMAEL JONES IS ON THE CASE. Paranormal private detective Ishmael Jones is invited to his employer’s country house for Christmas just in time to become embroiled in a locked-room mystery with a supernatural twist. CALL HIM ISHMAEL . . . Ishmael Jones. He’s used to keeping a low profile, living under the radar and on the dark side of the road. He makes his living solving mysteries and uncovering dark secrets some would prefer to stay hidden. But when he’s invited by his employer—a man known only as “The Colonel”—to spend Christmas at the Colonel’s sprawling country house, Ishmael Jones decides to come in from the dark for some holiday cheer.

Jones arrives at the remote Belancourt Manor in the midst of a blizzard only to discover that the Colonel has gone missing. It soon becomes clear that the guests are harboring dark secrets—and that it will be up to Ishmael Jones to stop a savage killer. A locked-room, country house mystery with a supernatural twist as only Simon R. Green could write it. About Simon R. Green: “A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world.” —Jim Butcher on the Nightside series “A splendid riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, conveyed with trademark wisecracking humor, and carried out with maximum bloodshed and mayhem.

In a word, irresistible.” —Kirkus, Starred Review of Simon R. Green’s Night Fall “[F]or those who want a fantasy-genre mash-up that doesn’t slow down.” —Booklist on From a Drood to a Kill “Simon R. Green is a great favorite of mine. It’s almost impossible to find a writer with a more fertile imagination than Simon. He’s a writer who seems endlessly inventive.” —Charlaine Harris