Berkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir.

Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action,...

The novel "Devil" is perhaps the most radical artistic expression in Thompson's entire extensive bibliography, a story of love obsession, filmed by the Frenc...

Lou Ford is a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town. He is leisurely, boring and friendly, as they say, his guy. He spouts platitudes and is polite to delinqu...

A hitman nicknamed the Kid receives orders to destroy a criminal. The diverse characters of Jim Meyers Thompson, the beloved writer of Stephen King, repeated...

The famous American prose writer calmly analyzes the souls of his heroes - criminals and ordinary people - and shows the underbelly of life without embellish...

“The Killer Inside Me” is the famous novel by Jim Thompson, a modern classic, a recognized explorer of the dark sides of human nature; Stanley Kubrick consid...

In their heyday, the true-crime pulp magazines spawned many of the masters of American detective fiction. These early gems have been unearthed and collect...

What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? “Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing, and sex,” said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blo...

Experienced swindler Roy Dillon managed to save more than 50 thousand dollars. However, when he tries to scam another victim out of $20, he is brutally beate...