Book Review: The Big Book of the Continental Op
/All of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.
Read MoreAll of Dashiell Hammett's stories and novels featuring the Continental Op, collected in one volume for the first time.
Read MoreThe latest enormous anthology from Otto Penzler features the dandies of the demimonde, the stylish thieves and ruthless killers of popular fiction.
Read MoreRacially charged 1950 Atlanta is the setting for Thomas Mullen's brutal, terrific new crime thriller.
Read MoreThe fates of three very different Irish brothers in prewar Manhattan intertwine in Brendan Mathews' impressive debut novel.
Read MoreAn '80s club kid wises up and gets all sad and melancholy in Jarett Kobek's follow-up to this surprise hit "I Hate the Internet"
Read MoreIt wasn't a fat, sick, wife-killing madman who came to the English throne in 1509 - as a new book reminds readers, it was a glorious teenage prince.
Read MoreA smart new novel looks back through fractured viewpoints at the dramatic events of a party at an English country house.
Read MoreThe bitter final weeks of the American Civil War form backdrop of Ralph Peters' dark, powerful latest novel.
Read MoreThe lives of five visiting Americans are forever changed by their short but eventful stays in the Eternal City.
Read MoreThe unsinkable Maggie Hope is on the case again in Susan Elia MacNeal's latest historical whodunit - this time set in Nazi-occupied Paris.
Read MoreThe first installment in a projected series about a wily Viking warrior, his leader - and the women in his life
Read MoreWas the death of literary theorist Roland Barthes in 1980 the result of a simple traffic accident - or part of a deeper plot? Laurent Binet's new novel takes readers into the weird world of ginned-up semiology.
Read MoreAndrew Wilson's new novel dramatizes the real-life ten-day disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie nearly a century ago - and adds a touch of murder.
Read MoreBestselling author of Tudor historical fiction Philippa Gregory takes up the familiar tragedy of Lady Jane Grey - and her forgotten but equally compelling sisters - in her new book, as A Year with the Tudors II continues.
Read MoreA young girl in 19th-century Ireland sets off on a dangerous odyssey with her even-younger brother in Paul Lynch's new novel.
Read MoreA debut novel tackles the volatile issues of gentrification and police brutality.
Read MoreA mysterious machine gives people tattoos that reveal deep oracular truths about themselves - and drives one young man to understand it all.
Read MoreThe famous Lizzie Borden axe-murders are 125 years old in 2017, and a new debut novel explores the horrors from the viewpoints of several people directly involved.
Read MoreThe centuries-old rivalry between two families erupts in new tensions during one summer on a small island off the coast of Maine
Read MoreMary Shelley's indomitable horror classic gets a sumptuous new annotated edition.
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