Mystery Section Rebuilt @ Main Street

Several boxes of interesting stuff showed up yesterday for the new mysteries section, including a complete run of Sjowall/Wahloo's Martin Beck mysteries (originally published in English in the 1970s, inexplicably out of print for years, and the blueprint for every successful Northern European mystery/thriller since then, Dragon Tattoo included), a run of Henning Menkell's Inspector Wallander books, and -- not to neglect North America! -- lots of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, a nice reissue of Jim Nesbit's Lethal Injection, and Savages, the new California noir thriller by staff favorite Don Winslow.

Now in Stock: Hard Case Crime

Regular customers have been asking us to carry Hard Case Crime's excellent line-up of vintage repackaged noir and new hard-boiled titles for some time now, and our initial order just arrived, including books by Lawrence Block, David Goodis, Donald Westlake, and the almost criminally underrated Charles Williams. Also coming soon: books by Fredric Brown, Charles Willeford, Jim Thompson, and even more David Goodis.

(Illustrated: Charles Williams' A Touch of Death, one of the finest noir novels ever written)