"Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in toxic chemicals that disfigure him bizarrely, driving him mad and thus giving birth to The Joker. For years, the Clown Prince of C...
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Jailhouse rock: A young man is sent to prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl. While behind bars he takes up singing and is helped in the record business by a beautiful young woman.
"Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy...
Way back in 2002, the brothers were hot on the heels of The Man, the leader of a racist, worldwide syndicate known as The Organization, but accidentally got caught in an avalanche of oppressive, white snow. Sixteen years later, they are discovered, thawed out, and remain in a com...
"Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King's Freedom Rally, Ingr...
In this volume, MWA brings together some of today's biggest crime writers--and some of our most exciting new talents--to consider this question. Each writer has defined home as they see fit: a place, a group, a feeling. The crime can come from without or within. What happens when...
A picture book that follows a pair of shoes from a shoe store through various happy owners to their final resting place.
Hiding out in a tarnished and crumbling suburban gated community called Willow Ridge, O'Connor, who has nothing left to lose, gets involved with his new neighbors, discovering that criminal behavior can happen anywhere, which plunges him into a world of passion, betrayal and viol...
The ocean is an old, old place, and the exotic animals in the depths have learned to adapt to their surroundings to survive. Can you find the creatures hidden on every page?
Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1981. Dan Mahowney is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover hi...
The future is bleak and violent. Humanity is on the verge of extinction and the ruthless corporation, Absolon, controls what is left of the population.
Written in 1928, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu defined the ancient gods as dark creatures who came from the stars and ruled the world before mankind. When these ancient ones awaken, humanity is plagued by a nightmare of terrors etched upon an epic backdrop. The author's co...
Alice has already traveled to Wonderland once, now she is taking another journey to the fascinating world with the memorable character Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, Red King and Queen, Red and White Knights, and Jabberwocky.
"In the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan with jazz, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Red Scare as the volatile ingredients three groundbreaking black cartoonists defy convention and pay the price."--Back cover.
In this second installment of the 'Harry Ingram' mystery series, fearless photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram takes on a missing persons case while at a professional crossroads after one of his photos puts him on the LAPD's radar.
Published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, which was held in Toronto, Canada in 2017. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canopy across a wide variety of crime writers from across the country and around the world - including b...
The crime-infested Venice Heights section is something Detective Sergeant Rafael "Saint" Santian understands. It's where he grew up, and part of him never left. It's his turf, and he likes to keep it running smooth, by his own code. But the situation is getting out of control. Th...
"Within these pages you'll find stories of those walking the straight and narrow; until something untoward happens. Maybe it's someone taking a step out of line, getting caught up in circumstances spiraling out of their control. Maybe they're planning the grift, the grab ... what...