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Fifty-to-One

By: Charles Ardai

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME! Okay, not really. But what if, instead of having been founded 50 books ago, Hard Case Crime had been founded 50 years ago, by a rascal out to make a quick buck off the popularity of pulp fiction? Such a fellow might make a few enemies – especially after publishing a supposed non-fiction account of a heist at a Mob-run nightclub, actually penned by an 18-year-old showgirl. With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them...

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Death Comes Too Late

By: Charles Ardai

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Death Comes Too Late

By: Charles Ardai

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME – 20 UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHARLES ARDAI “A MASTER OF THE SHORT STORY.” – STEPHEN KING Since debuting 20 years ago, Hard Case Crime has won acclaim for publishing the best in hardboiled crime fiction – not least of all the work of founding editor Charles Ardai, which has won the Edgar, Shamus and Ellery Queen Awards, been selected for ‘Best of the Year’ anthologies, and earned praise from everyone from the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune to Megan Abbott and Stephen King. Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author’s 20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning “The Home Front,” about death and repentance during World War II; the Shamus Award finalist “Nobody Wins,” about a brutal gangland enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year’s-best selections such as “A Bar Called Charley’s,” about a traveling salesman’s most grueling night on the road. From Brazil at Carnival to Times Square at midnight, from Tijuana, Mexico to history’s first gunshot in 11th-century China, Ardai will take you to some of the most dangerous places in the world – and the darkest corners of the human heart.

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1803366273

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Fifty-to-One

By: Charles Ardai

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Fifty-to-One

By: Charles Ardai

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Gabriel Hunt - Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear

By: Charles Ardai

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Gabriel Hunt - Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear

By: Charles Ardai

From the towers of Manhattan to the jungles of South America, from the sands of the Sahara to the frozen crags of Antarctica, one man finds adventure everywhere he goes: GABRIEL HUNT. Backed by the resources of the $100 million Hunt Foundation and armed with his trusty Colt revolver, Gabriel Hunt has always been ready for anything--but is he prepared for the adventures that lie in wait for him?

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1781169918

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Gun Honey Volume 2: Blood for Blood

By: Charles Ardai

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Gun Honey Volume 2: Blood for Blood

By: Charles Ardai

Joanna Tan is back, sexier and deadlier than ever… She’ll get you the weapon you need, when you need it, where you need it – no matter how impossible. They call her GUN HONEY. But this time, somebody else is planting the weapons. Somebody who’s causing a lot of trouble. And with Joanna’s MO, the authorities are making her their number one suspect. It’s now up to Joanna to prove her innocence, and find the woman responsible for framing her for murder! Created by award-winning co-founder of Hard Case Crime Charles Ardai, and illustrated by breakout artist Ang Hor Kheng, GUN HONEY: BLOOD FOR BLOOD is a fast-paced mystery thriller that fans of the first graphic novel and classic pulp crime fiction will love.

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Titan Comics

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1787739805

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9781787739802

The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Charles Ardai

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The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Charles Ardai

Holland March is a private eye with a defective nose and a broken arm. Jackson Healy is the tough guy who put him in a cast. Not the two most likely men to team up to hunt for a missing girl, or look into the suspicious death of a beautiful porn star, or go up against a conspiracy of the rich and powerful that stretches from Detroit to D.C. Hell, they’re not the most likely pair to team up to do anything. But there you go. And if they somehow survive this case, they might just find they like each other. But let’s be honest. They probably won’t survive it. Copyright © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. THE NICE GUYS and all related characters and elements © Silver Pictures Entertainment. WB SHIELD: ™ & © WBEI. (s16)

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Heat Seeker #1

A Gun Honey Series

By: Charles Ardai

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A Gun Honey Series

By: Charles Ardai

Award-winning writer and co-founder of Hard Case Crime, Charles Ardai, returns to the Gun Honey universe in this action-packed spin-off featuring the sultry and explosive artwork of Ace Continuado. If the heat is on, Dahlia Racers can help you disappear – for a price. Marked for death by a U.S. intelligence agency, Gun Honey Joanna Tan turns to Dahlia Racers to help her pull a vanishing act. But the killer hot on her trail, beautiful sociopath Sarah Claride, will leave bodies strewn from New York to Las Vegas, to Tijuana, Mexico, if it means cornering Dahlia – and breaking her…

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1787741826

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Gun Honey: Collision Course #4

By: Charles Ardai

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Gun Honey: Collision Course #4

By: Charles Ardai

The epic final issue has arrived! After nearly a year in hiding from government agents looking to kill her, Gun Honey – Joanna Tan – launches a plan to turn the tables that will take her from the jungles of Borneo to the streets of Yokohama and sands of the Gobi Desert. But when four armed groups converge on one secret location, will anyone survive the explosive collision?

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1787744221

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Yes, You're a Leader!

A Practical Guide to Leadership for Real People

By: John Charles Kunich,Richard I. Lester

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Yes, You're a Leader!

A Practical Guide to Leadership for Real People

By: John Charles Kunich,Richard I. Lester

Offering an array of fresh innovations to remedy the most daunting leadership challenges of today's complex and rapidly evolving world, this practical how-to guide is for anyone who has ever had qualms about his or her lack of leadership experience or imagined limitations. Everyone in a leadership or management role wants a quick and effective solution to the most severe problems. This book enables even a novice to proactively work through the largest challenges. Rather than providing clichés or superficial advice, the authors leverage the most impactful examples of key elements of leadership in a practical way that readers can translate to their own situations, no matter if they are in charge of a for-profit, not-for-profit, educational, religious, family, or social organization. The questions for analysis in each chapter specifically guide readers as they apply the material to their own experiences and challenges, making the insights pragmatic, relevant, and immediately useful. The book presents innovative tools and techniques, such as the use of Pascal's Wager to make momentous decisions despite gaps in relevant data and an uncertain future, as well as a way to reduce or eliminate the career-ending threat of any reader's most severe "Achilles' heel" vulnerabilities. The time management chapter supplies dozens of pragmatic ideas to do more in less time—and do it better; the chapter on "Quicksand Quadrants" enables any leader to quickly assess the optimal mix of approaches in any situation. It all adds up to an essential—and user-friendly—manual for every leader at every level.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440844844

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9781440844843

Understudy for Death

By: Charles Willeford

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Understudy for Death

By: Charles Willeford

Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961. AN UNFORGIVABLE CRIME. AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out - and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era. On the 30th anniversary of the death of the masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime is proud to present Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford's rarest titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut.

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1785656902

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Great Tales of Madness and Macabre

By: Charles Ardai

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Great Tales of Madness and Macabre

By: Charles Ardai

Deathbinder / Alexander Jablokov. -- The marked man / David Ely. -- The ones who turn invisible / F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. -- Ever after / Susan Palwick. -- The living dead / Robert Bloch. -- Report on a broken marriage / Dennis O'Neil. -- The beast from one-quarter fathom / George Alec Effinger. -- Was it a dream / Guy de Maupassant. -- The Madonna of the wolves / Somtow Sucharitkul. -- Placebo / Andrew Vachss. -- The man at the window / Charles Gordon. -- Yankee Doodle / James Tiptree, Jr. -- An inhabitant of Carcosa / Amrose Bierce. -- Killer in the house / Jas. R. Petrin. -- Sometimes they bite / Lawrence Block. -- Three men in a tub / Lemuel Cork. -- The wedding gig / Stephen King. -- Flicks / Bill Crenshaw. -- The leopard man's story / Jack London. -- Something evil in the house / Celia Fremlin. -- How the wind spoke at Madaket / Lucius Shepard. -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe. -- The dive people / Avram Davidson. -- Graffiti / Stanley Ellin. -- The dim rumble / Isaac Asimov. -- The leather funnel / Arthur Conan Doyle. -- Trinity / Nancy Kress. -- Island man / R.A. Wilson.

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0883657503

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9780883657508

Death Comes Too Late

By: Charles Ardai

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The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Charles Ardai

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Fifty-to-One

Fifty-to-One

Death Comes Too Late

Death Comes Too Late

Fifty-to-One

Fifty-to-One

Gabriel Hunt - Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear

Gabriel Hunt - Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear

Gun Honey Volume 2: Blood for Blood

Gun Honey Volume 2: Blood for Blood

The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

Heat Seeker #1

Heat Seeker #1

Gun Honey: Collision Course #4

Gun Honey: Collision Course #4

Yes, You're a Leader!

Yes, You're a Leader!

Understudy for Death

Understudy for Death

Great Tales of Madness and Macabre

Great Tales of Madness and Macabre

Death Comes Too Late

Death Comes Too Late

The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

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