Hard-boiled Stories

The Dominant Motive is the first novel in the Alex Goldfinger mystery series written by Jack D. Kelly. Alex Goldfinger is an office manager/private investigator-in-train...

In this hard boiled mystery solving double feature, the bad guys team up with two of the greatest detectives In the world: mystery inc and Tom & Jerry. Ever since myster...

While battling drug addiction and post-traumatic demons, can a female veteran overcome the forces trying to frame her for murder? When Marine veteran and aspiring privat...

Once a cop, now a private eye. Once human, now a cyborg. Dalton Steel had scraped a living investigating the things that were beneath the cops he used to work with. Exce...

"Holiday, ha!" spat James Bond "What was I thinking?" When James Bond is sent to Vienna to attend a meeting at the UN, he realizes that M is merely t...

Everyone in the neighbourhood knew her. Everyone saw her everyday going about her business. Everyone loved her. But nobody knows where she went. Nobody knows what she's...

Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his bac...

Welcome to Toontown where cartoon characters - Toons - live side-by-side with humans. The whole Who Framed Roger Rabbit cast is here: Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant, Baby H...

'With a dress that red I should have seen the warning signs' What if Missy had never walked into his office and his life? And just what is that necklace she's after? Cyn...

It usually took more than a pretty face and a tight skirt for Caleb Joyner to take a case. But when it’s your first love coming back for seconds it’s hard for a private...

A hardboiled yarn, served black.

Un dialogo tra un ergastolano e il suo avvocato in un futuro prossimo venturo, in cui il protagonista (il criminale) apprende che forse ci sta una remota possibilità di...

In a 1930s anytown, USA called Arrant City, a hardboiled detective with a heart of gold - Lenny Zollins - AKA Zollie or LZ - fights crime of the ... unusual variety.

"I've known a lot of people with worse lives than you. It's part of the business I'm in -- I get to see all kinds of human privilege, human weakness, human strangen...

A night with two incidents, a villain gets a victim and then becomes a victim. I wrote this short story based on a meme I saw on the internet. "Good artists copy...

Sheriff Shreveport Allen is on the trail of two cold-blooded killers racking up a body count. Will he catch them before they kill again?

Daniela Moreno wakes up one morning with her eyes gouged out. No blood, just two empty sockets left behind. I may not have any memories of the incident, but I will find...

Arun is a cop in a jungle town short on pavement. He's got problems piling up and answers growing thin. A woman torn to shreds, a UN investigator missing, a militia sett...

I found a hard boiled egg on the side of the road and thought about how it got there

Slightly homophobic interrogator teams up with a hard-boiled lesbian detective to solve a murder case. In Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of Europe, rain is liquef...