Stark House Press

  • The Lost Coast and Other Sharon McCone Stories

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    The best of the Sharon McCone stories…

    Follow Sharon’s investigations at Fort Point beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, to some of the seamy and prosperous areas throughout San Francisco … from Russian

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    • Author: Muller, Marcia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 262
    • Publish Date: January 02 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798886011760
    • Language: English
  • Build My Gallows High

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    BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH

    Red Bailey used to be a detective. But then gangster Whit Sterling offered him a job to find the missing Mumsie McGonigle. She’d put a bullet in Whit and worse than that, stolen s

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    • Author: Homes, Geoffrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 154
    • Publish Date: November 05 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798886011661
    • Language: English
  • The Fantastic Detective Notebook: A Survey and Index to Cross-Genre Mystery & Detective Novels in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror

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    THE FANTASTIC DETECTIVE NOTEBOOK

    Originally published in a limited paperback edition 40 years ago-long out of print-this is a detailed look at the combination of fantastic fiction and the detective sto

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    • Author: Lovisi, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: November 05 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798886011753
    • Language: English
  • Wolf Cop / Port Angelique

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    WOLF COP

    Tony Serella is a tough but honest cop. But he’s gotten a reputation as a wolf cop, a loner that doesn’t run with the pack, doesn’t play the game. Now he’s up on charges that he beat a young p

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    • Author: Jessup, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 302
    • Publish Date: November 05 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798886011678
    • Language: English
  • Tales of the Impossible

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    Nineteen ingenious crime puzzle mysteries inspired by the master of the locked room mystery, John Dickson Carr-some of them featuring Nameless Detective and Carpenter & Quincannon … tales involving

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    • Author: Pronzini, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 316
    • Publish Date: October 03 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798886011630
    • Language: English
  • The Red Tassel

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    Al Colby, international private eye, is hired by Pancha Porter to figure out why her late father’s Bolivian mine has suddenly started to lose money. Driving up to the Bolivian heights is an experience

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    • Author: Dodge, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 03 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798886011692
    • Language: English
  • Never Odd or Even

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    There are lost films and then there are LOST films. Young director Charlie Jerome, hot on the heels of his art-house smash Summer and Sandy, has a scheme to make the ultimate film noir-by staging real

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    • Author: Young, Frank M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 162
    • Publish Date: June 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798886011470
    • Language: English
  • Silver Moon Rising

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    Lieutenant Ivy Bourque of the Cape & Islands Detective Unit is called to a Martha’s Vineyard ferry at midnight. She soon learns that the estranged son of Massachusetts’ most famous political family is

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    • Author: Potter, A. M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 250
    • Publish Date: September 04 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798886011005
    • Language: English
  • The Hanging Man & Other Western Stories

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    Bill Pronzini has been writing westerns throughout his long and varied career, and this volume collects the author’s best.

    Here are stories peopled by such familiar figures as lawmen, ranchers, cowhan

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    • Author: Pronzini, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 206
    • Publish Date: December 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
    • Language: English
  • Sudden Fear

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    SUDDEN FEAR

    Myra Hudson is the last in the long line of the Hudsons, and her fame, wealth and power are legendary. She has written seven plays in the last fifteen years, all of them successful. Now sh

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    • Author: Sherry, Edna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 194
    • Publish Date: August 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
    • Language: English
  • A Mystery, Crime & Noir Notebook

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    A MYSTERY, CRIME & NOIR NOTEBOOK

    This book is a compilation of almost 50 articles written over a period of 40 years by noted collector/author/publisher Gary Lovisi. They include topics about some of hi

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    • Author: Lovisi, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 278
    • Publish Date: November 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798886010541
    • Language: English
  • Sinister House

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    SINISTER HOUSE

    Gail Hollister has been sent to Casa de Ayer to organize Colonel Conniston’s antique collection. Her first surprise occurs when she is stopped along the way by an unsuccessful highway ro

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    • Author: Booth, Charles G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798886010749
    • Language: English
  • High Sierra / The Asphalt Jungle

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    HIGH SIERRA

    Big Mac buys Roy Earle’s pardon because he needs a gunman on a heist job in California. There are three of them in on it besides Roy: Red, Babe and Louis, the inside man. But Roy didn’t fig

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    • Author: Burnett, W. R.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 360
    • Publish Date: May 16 2022
    • ISBN10: 1951473736
    • Language: English
  • Death of a Punk

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    DEATH OF A PUNK

    Lenny Hornblower used to drive a cab. Now he finds people for a fee–$100 a day plus expenses. When Lisa Perlont calls and asks him to find her son Blinky, it seems like an easy job. Bl

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    • Author: Browner, John P.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: November 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798886010695
    • Language: English
  • Fully Dressed and In His Right Mind

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    FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND

    Johnny Price first meets the little old man at the scene of a streetside murder. The little man confesses that it was he who shot the man, and Johnny figures he’s ei

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    • Author: Fessier, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 170
    • Publish Date: November 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 9798886010091
    • Language: English
  • Satan is a Woman / 13 French Street

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    SATAN IS A WOMAN

    Larry Cole’s brother Tad is sent up for life for the murder of a couple fellow hoods. Larry has always looked up to Tad, and knows that if he just had enough money, he could buy him a

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    • Author: Brewer, Gil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 270
    • Publish Date: July 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798886010336
    • Language: English
  • Somebody’s Done For

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    SOMEBODY’S DONE FOR

    Calvin Jander is just about done for when his boat capsizes and he’s forced to tread water, hoping for a sight of land. When he does find the shore, he’s just barely alive. And that

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    • Author: Goodis, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 182
    • Publish Date: August 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798886010459
    • Language: English
  • The Dark Corner / Sleep, My Love

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    THE DARK CORNER

    Kathleen Conley is the perfect secretary. And she knows a tail when she sees one. The guy in the white suit has been following her detective boss, Bradford Galt, all evening. So Galt br

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    • Author: Rosten, Leo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 182
    • Publish Date: January 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798886010725
    • Language: English
  • Repeat Performance

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    Barney Page is wandering Manhattan from bar to bar in an alcoholic haze. He’s even sunk to sleeping in a Bowery flophouse. He used to be one of Broadway’s top actors, the toast of the town. But that w

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    • Author: O’Farrell, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 254
    • Publish Date: August 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 1951473426
    • Language: English
  • The Snatchers / Clean Break (the Killing)

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    THE SNATCHERS

    Cal Dent has set up the perfect crime, a kidnapping which will bring the gang a half a million dollars. On his side, he’s got Red the ex-boxer and his girl, Pearl. There’s also the sadis

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    • Author: White, Lionel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 31 2017
    • ISBN10: 1944520198
    • Language: English
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