Steep detective

Sam Spade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett\'s cooly glittering gem of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted 2 g...

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett\'s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis. FROM THE PUB...

A collection of some of the finest stories from Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon.

During his lifetime, Horace McCoy, an American journalist, writer and screenwriter, gained great fame not in America, but in Europe, where he was recognized ...

Raymond Chandler's books about Philip Marlowe not only laid the foundations for the hardboiled detective genre, but also became modern classics in the broade...

Raymond Chandler's books about Philip Marlowe not only laid the foundations for the hardboiled detective genre, but also became modern classics in the broade...

Rene Raymond, known throughout the world under the pseudonym James Hadley Chase, became famous in the genre of “hard-boiled” detective. He came from the fami...

Over half a century of writing, the British detective author Rene Brabazon Raymond (1906–1985) published about ninety crime novels and changed several creati...

This short story is based on real events that occurred in Tashkent in the early 10s of our century. The main character finds himself in a catastrophe that wi...

Valery Tarkovsky was killed quickly and in cold blood. The killer was clearly trying to make it clear that Tarkovsky was not such a good specialist. The mart...