First-rate hard-boiled fiction. Mike Hammer probably crossed paths with Griff and Fats, who live in the back alleys of Jim Thompson country."" - Booklist. It's ""Bay City,"" 1962 - a time of peace and trust, when girls hitch-hiked without a care. But...
Vic Powers lives life on a hellbound train, and he knows to expect the worst, even when things are going well. He's right. Vic's past comes back to haunt him in the form of Cliff, a deeply psychotic killer with a bone to pick with Vic that extends to...
DEADLY DAMES contains fifteen stories featuring the women that Mom warned you about. They're lovers, bitches, whores, heroines, and crazies -- They're the deadliest dames you'll ever meet, lurking in this thrill-packed collection! New fiction by Art ...
A well-regarded businessman appears to have brutally stabbed his wife to death and then suffocated their two small children before fleeing their home. Sherlock Holmes, deploying his unique investigative methods, is set upon proving otherwise....
The Adventure Of The Missing Detective: Sherlock Holmes is shocked almost beyond belief to discover that Queen Victoria is dead -- and that his old nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, had been knighted and appointed personal advisor to the new heir M...
These hard crime tales are replete with heroes, fools, wicked femme fatales, crooked grifters, crazy punks, vile con men, vengeful vigilantes, evil child molesters, plus the usual array of hardcore killers, thieves and worse - the broad spectrum of c...
At the end of Earth's days, a sorcerer creates a powerful creature--The Gargoyle--to guard the secrets of Earth's last city, Shenumbra. Then the alien Leinites arrive, determined to plunder our world of its riches. But in the process of pillaging the...
He had no past and no future, only the long open road ahead of him. What would he find there, other than danger and violence? Sometimes a shred of memory, dark and fearful, gave him a hint of what he'd once been. Now he was just a loner. Darkness shr...
Two years ago Gary Lovisi came out with his first collection of unknown stories about Sherlock Holmes in THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Now, Gary adds three more tales to the canon with "The Notorious Crosby Murders," "A Study in Evil" and...
When the police are asked to investigate the brutal murder of bookseller Brian MacDonald, who's been stabbed in the back with his letter opener, they have no trouble locating suspects, because MacDonald has been less than honest in his dealings. But ...
A complete novel, West Texas War, and several short stories by Brooklyn's Gary Lovisi of Gryphon Books. Gary has learned from the best and these rousing six-shooters will take to back the the wild west in true Lovisi style....
This is the new collection of Sherlockian pastiches by Gary Lovisi, author and editor of Paperback Parade and Hardboiled. With an afterword by Richard A. Lupoff....
In the not-so-distant future, men have come to Mars to escape the oppressive Earth government. Ryan is an agent for a super-secret government agency, the Department of Control (DOC), and has always been willing to do whatever his masters want of him....
THE RETURN OF THE BARON GRUNER In 1902 Sir James Damery enlisted the aid of Sherlock Holmes to prevent the daughter of an old friend from marrying a womanizing Austrian named Adelbert Gruner who was suspected of murdering his first wife. Dr.Watson ch...
These three Vic Powers stories present hard-boiled dysfunctionality at its most intense and brutal best. These are not tales for the easily squeamish, or those who want to spend their hours leisuring in countryclub-style mystery puzzlers. These are t...
When bookseller Brian McDonald is murdered - stabbed in the back with his own paperknife - the police are overwhelmed with suspects! Investigating detective Bentley Hollow discovers that the victim, dishonest professionally and privately, was univers...
When Sherlock Holmes finds himself enmeshed in the most deadly case of his career, it threatens to bring terrible doom upon him and his friend Doctor John H. Watson. A deadly nemesis from his past, a most vile and evil villain, has returned to Englan...
Sherlock Holmes That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever...
I spoke to the warrior, but obviously he could not understand me. I tried again in every language I knew. It was all met with the same confusion and frustration on both our parts.Nevertheless, the warrior approached me carefully and in what looked no...
When young Joseph Adler enters a small Dorchester bookstore to sell a rare old copy of The Strand Magazine - within its pages is discovered what appears to be a sheet torn from the diary of Sherlock Holmes' friend, Doctor Watson. The implications are...
Alan Nelson was not a prolific writer, and as far as I know he wrote (or at least had published) only short stories. No novels. However, these stories are true gems. They originally appeared in some of the most prestigious venues for short fiction of...
John Kirk of Ares -- a hero very much in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' interplanetary romances -- returns in the second book in the series! PRAISE FOR BOOK 1: "It’s been nearly a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs first enchanted readers ...
John Kirk of Ares -- a hero very much in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' interplanetary romances -- returns in the third book in the series! PRAISE FOR BOOK 1: "It’s been nearly a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs first enchanted readers w...
Bold Venture Press unveils "The Last Goodbye," Gary Lovisi's latest chronicle of crimefighter Vic Powers.A routine traffic stop escalates into a mob vendetta, putting a good cop and his wife on the run. When he turns to his friend Vic Powers for help...
Harry Turner won’t sit on the sidelines any longer. He’s through watching his neighborhoods and fellow New Yorkers suffer. Drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters practically have free reign. When he dons the nightblack disguise of The Nemesis, crimina...
The Man in the Mask High atop the Clarion Tower, a blinking red light begins to pulse signaling one of New York City’s most illustrious, vigilante heroes, the Phantom Detective. In reality, he is Curtis Van Loan, a debonair playboy millionaire well...
A Scientific Romance inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter Series and set upon the faraway planet of Ares, The Mind Masters is the fourth volume in this great new series of sword-and-planet adventures!...
A Scientific Romance inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series and set upon the faraway planet of Ares, The Time Masters is the fifth volume in this great new series of sword-and-planet adventures!...
It’s 1963 and tough-as-nails Bay City Homicide cops, Griff & Fats, find themselves mired in the most brutal cases of their careers. A brother cop has gone crazy off the rails; an out-of-town cop-killer is seeking revenge; they find themselves stalk...
'Mr. Mac', as Sherlock Holmes calls him, is the talented young Inspector Alec MacDonald. Though he's out to make his mark at Scotland Yard, some baffling new cases have him seeking assistance from the great detective; and the two, along with the stal...
He was Gaetano Salvidienus Rufus, better known by most simply as The Sicilian. He had been raised by the Greek, Apollodorus, upon the Mediterranean island of Sicily after his father Quintus Salvidienus Rufus had been executed by Mark Antony as a trai...
Five untold tales of the great detective. In the first, Holmes chronicles to Watson a strange event at a freak show years before he met the good doctor. The second sees Watson throwing a birthday party for his friend - but danger lurks among the fest...
He was Gaetano Salvidienus Rufus, better known by most simply as The Sicilian. He had been raised by the Greek, Apollodorus, upon the Mediterranean island of Sicily after his father Quintus Salvidienus Rufus had been executed by Mark Antony as a trai...
Thomas Jones, a retired professor of English and rare book dealer, is astounded when a young man enters his shop offering an almost pristine copy of THE STRAND MAGAZINE from July 1891, containing the Sherlock Holmes story A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA. But wh...
CRIME'S GREATEST FOE - Once again, Sherlock Holmes pits his amazing talents against the criminals of London and beyond. In this new collection of the bestselling series, he and loyal companion Dr. Watson will confront five twisted, dark mysteries and...