Download or read book Gumshoe Blues written by Paul D. Brazill and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a messy divorce, Peter Ord decides to turn his life around and become a private investigator. But with his constant drinking and questionable decision-making skills, his new career quickly turns into a dark farce filled with tragicomedy. As he takes on challenging cases and tries to keep up with his boozy sidekick Bryn Laden, Peter finds himself on the wrong side of a local crime lord's radar. Failure is not an option, but with Peter's track record, it seems to be a foregone conclusion. Get ready for a wild ride with Peter Ord and his misadventures as a private eye. "Dark, witty, farcical, and thoroughly entertaining." -Barbara F. Jones, Storgy Books

Download or read book The Peter Ord Yarns written by Paul D. Brazill and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both books in Paul D. Brazill's 'The Peter Ord Yarns', now available in one volume! Gumshoe Blues: After a divorce, Peter Ord decides to turn his life around and becomes a private detective. But with his constant drinking and questionable decision-making skills, his new career quickly takes a turn for the worse. Trying to solve challenging cases and keep up with his boozy sidekick Bryn Laden, Peter soon finds himself on the wrong side of a local crime lord's radar. Seatown Blues: Peter Ord returns to his hometown, hoping to start fresh, but it doesn't take long for him to fall back into his old habits. Hanging out with a group of lowlifes and getting involved in criminal activities, Peter navigates the seedy underbelly of his hometown. Along the way, he encounters a cast of offbeat characters, each with their own quirks and secrets.

Download or read book Armitage Files written by Robin D. Laws and published by Pelgrane Press. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Silver ENnie award winner and Golden Geek award nominee.

Download or read book The Last Gang In Town written by Paul D. Brazill and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After London gangster Mad Tony Cook gives aging thugs Big Jim and Kenny Rogan the task of collecting a briefcase from the courier, Half-Pint Harry, he doesn’t suspect that Harry will end up dead in his lock-up. Dressing up in drag to rob a jeweller's shop, Kenny and Big Jim lose the coveted briefcase. A wild, hilarious search for the missing goods soon ensues... with fatal consequences. A foul-mouthed, violently comic crime caper, Paul D. Brazill's THE LAST GANG IN TOWN is full of gaudy characters and dialogue sharp enough to shave with.

Download or read book Stray Bullets written by Paul D. Brazill and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stray Bullets is a scattershot of short stories and flash fiction from ‘The King Of Brit Grit’ Paul D. Brazill. In this short, sharp collection, you will stumble into hit men, gangsters, corrupt cops, drunks, punks, petty thieves, and all manner of lowlife criminals. The stories in Stray Bullets are vivid and violent slices of Brit Grit and noir, full of gaudy characters and dialogue sharp enough to cut your throat. Stray Bullets is a violent and blackly comic look at life seen through a dirty shot glass darkly.

Download or read book Gunmetal Blues written by Scott Wentworth and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is this a hard-boiled detective tale disguised as a lounge act - or the other way around?

Download or read book Holly Blues written by Susan Wittig Albert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Bayles isn't happy when a Texas wind blows her husband's ex-wife, and the mother of China's stepson, into her herb shop. Sally is known to have a split personality and fall into constant trouble with the law, but she claims she has nowhere else to turn. Now its up to China to weed out whatever it is Sally's running from before the truth catches up to them all.

Download or read book Red Planet Blues written by Robert J. Sawyer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula award–nominated novella “Identity Theft” The name’s Lomax—Alex Lomax. I’m the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush. I’m trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, the corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers—lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O’Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what I’ll dig up...

Download or read book Sweet Silver Blues written by Glen Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-05-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.

Download or read book Blue Laws written by Kevin Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, from the award-winning author of Jelly Roll and Book of Hours, a rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed with "B sides" and "bonus tracks" from this prolific and widely acclaimed poet. Blue Laws gathers poems written over the past two decades, drawing from all nine of Kevin Young's previously published books of poetry and including a number of uncollected, often unpublished, poems. From his stunning lyric debut (Most Way Home, 1995) and the amazing "double album" life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2001;"remixed" for Knopf in 2005), through his brokenhearted Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003) and his recent forays into adult grief and the joys of birth in Dear Darkness (2008) and Book of Hours (2014), this collection provides a grand tour of a poet whose personal poems and political poems are equally riveting. Together with wonderful outtakes and previously unseen blues, the profoundly felt poems here of family, Southern food, and loss are of a piece with the depth of personal sensibility and humanity found in his Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels or bold sequences such as "The Ballad of Jim Crow" and a new "Homage to Phillis Wheatley."

Download or read book Cthulhu Confidential written by Pelgrane Press and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cthulhu Confidential is a roleplaying game designed for one player and one game master. Its powered by the GUMSHOE One-2-One game system which retunes, rebuilds and reimagines the acclaimed GUMSHOE investigative rules set, as seen in such hit roleplaying games as Trail of Cthulhu and Nights Black Agents, for one player and one GM. Together, you create a story that evokes the classic solo protagonist mystery format. Cthulhu Confidential drops your hero into the noir nightscape of hardboiled-era Los Angeles, New York or Washington, DC. Meet powerbrokers and politicians, rub shoulders with Hollywood studio bosses and fiery evangelists. Face narrow-eyed G-Men, bent cops and dangerous crime lords. But beneath it all, under the scrim of all this human endeavor, lives corruption so old and inhuman youll need all your courage and resourcefulness to face it. Choose one of three heroes with their own settings and adventures: Langston Wright is an African-American war veteran and scholar in WW2-era DC with a keen intellect. Dex Raymond is a hard-boiled private detective in 1930s Los Angeles with a nose for trouble. And Vivian Sinclair is The New York Heralds most determined scoop-hound. Each is a lone investigator, equipped with smarts, fists, and just maybe a code of honor, uncovering their towns secret truths. But what happens when you scratch the veneer of human malfeasance to reveal an eternal evilthe malign, cosmic indifference of HP Lovecrafts Cthulhu Mythos? Made in the U.S.

Download or read book Crazy Love written by Candace Gold and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do for love? When Abby Minton agrees to host a book signing for Charles Greer in her bookstore, she doesn't expect she'll end up giving the man dating advice. . .or dating him herself! As she falls in love with Charles, she becomes more and more petrified that their relationship would be history if he ever met her dysfunctional family. Between her brother's failed bank heist interrupting Charles's book signing and roses from a persistent stalker making Charles think she's taken, their relationship is one mishap after another. But when Charles finally proposes, Abby is faced with the most ridiculous prospect of all: introducing him to her crazy family. How can she keep the man of her dreams when her family is the stuff of nightmares? 54,000 Words

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Download or read book Bubblegumshoe written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: omeone stole my kid brother's bike...Someone sabotaged the pep rally...Someone destroyed the Homecoming queen's reputation...The world is full of mysteries. It's up to your group of intrepid teen sleuths to solve them. In Bubblegumshoe, players step into the shoes of high-schoolers solving mysteries in a modern American small town. Discover clues, solve problems, and throw down with enemies in this streamlined RPG based on the GUMSHOE system.In this stand-alone game, you'll find:Rules to create your Sleuth's web of relationships and make the most of GUMSHOE's resource-managementA simple setting system designed for large scale town creation all the way down to scene locations, plus extensive information on Drewsbury, a ready-to-go settingA variety of short mystery starters, including a full introductory mystery: Hey! That's My Bike!Extensive support to help GMs create their own mysteries using pre-established characters and settingsRules for social Throwdowns as well as physical altercations to reflect the drama of high school noirA slimmed-down list of investigative abilities vs GUMSHOE's default to make for faster decision makingBubblegumshoe. The secrets will out.

Download or read book Port Vila Blues written by Garry Disher and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch—and perhaps the girl—that undoes him. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules—even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home. In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style criminal Wyatt positively shines.

Download or read book Kill City Blues written by Richard Kadrey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s fifth Sandman Slim adventure. James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning and searching for their lost power. The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall infested with tribes of squatters. Somewhere in this kill zone is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, recover the artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods—and natural-born killers—on his tail. But not even Sandman Slim is infallible, and any mistakes will cost him dearly.

Download or read book Dome City Blues written by Jeff Edwards and published by Stealth Books. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles: 2063 David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles. He could do no wrong, until what seemed like an easy case got out of control, and left his wife dead among the abandoned ruins of old LA. After four years of self-imposed retirement, David suddenly finds himself back on the job, struggling to unravel a crime far worse than murder. This time, he’s not the hunter. As he’s about to discover, the past isn’t finished with him yet…