PETER MARAVELIS is a native San Franciscan with a life-long involvement in the art and literary scenes. He programs the events calendar at City Lights Bookstore and is editor of both San Francisco Noir and San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics. He’s been known to occasionally moonlight with private investigators.
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Joe Gores: Dead Skip
"Raw reality. A tough, taut writer. Saves a gut-punch for the climax." — The Washington Post In the first book of Joe Gores’s razor-sharp Daniel Kearny Associates series, a …
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Joe Gores: Spade & Archer
The stunning prequel to Dashiell Hammett’s crime classic THE MALTESE FALCON.When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours, …
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Joe Gores: Interface
‘Not since Hammett and Chandler has anyone written quite as well as Joe Gores. He will probably be regarded as one of the masters in years to come’ Ross Thomas Neil Fargo is a San Francisco private i …
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Joe Gores: Hammett
‘Not since Hammett and Chandler has anyone written quite as well as Joe Gores’ Ross Thomas From Chinatown’s dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hamm …
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Joe Gores: Dead Skip
Ballard has seventy-two hours to find out who attacked his partner, Bart Heslip, who’s lying in the hospital in a coma. Now Ballard is racing around the frayed edges of Oakland and San Francisco trac …
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Joe Gores: Final Notice
The bank gives Chandra the dancer final notice; Daniel Kearny Associates take her red Caddy, then the trouble starts. In the car the DKA men find $500 in new bills. Suddenly the bank wants to give th …
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Joe Gores: Gone, No Forwarding
The facts: an ‘irregular’ collection could cost Dan Kearny his shield. But the small, disputed sum soon reveals a web of deception, conspiracy and violence, and only an eyewitness can slice through t …
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Joe Gores: 32 Cadillacs
A respectable citizen trips on a store escalator. On cue, Cadillacs start disappearing from lots all over San Francisco, as a team of scam artists use pure criminal genius to do one California bank o …
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Joe Gores: Contract Null and Void
Their job is to bring back the goods bought but not paid for by San Francisco’s deadbeats. But the repo men of Daniel Kearny Associates have their own problems. Boss man Dan Kearny has been bounced b …
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Joe Gores: Stakeout on Page Street
In 1955, aged twenty-three and fresh from a Master’s in English Literature, Joe Gores knew he wanted to be a writer. In the meantime, he had to pay the bills.He became a repo man for L. A. Walker, la …
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Joe Gores: Cons, Scams and Grifts
On a Hollywood studio lot, a dancing bear – a Gypsy in a fur suit – does a little sly pickpocketing. In San Francisco, Daniel Kearny Associates are waging a campaign to repossess twenty-seven classic …
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Joe Gores: Time of Predators
The gang was restless, just looking for idle fun. They roughed up a man they thought was gay – but their game got out of hand and their victim was blinded.It was Paula Halstead’s bad luck to witness …
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Joe Gores: Come Morning
After eight hard years in San Quentin prison, Runyan is out and ready to lead a quiet life – an honest life. But certain people have been planning for the day of his release – people who desperately …
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Joe Gores: Wolf Time
Hollis Fletcher has no idea why someone has tried to kill him. Fletcher is a professional hunter with years of tracking experience, and he’s going to find the man who left him for dead in the frozen …
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Joe Gores: Dead Man
Once Eddie Dain had a life: a beautiful wife, a happy young son and a thriving business catching soft-core bad guys by computer. Then he hung onto an odd-looking case and made a mysterious enemy – on …
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Joe Gores: Menaced Assassin
It began with the murder of a beautiful woman, the adulterous wife of a mild-mannered professor. Then a corrupt cop was gunned down in a phone booth.After that, the killer who called himself Raptor m …
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Joe Gores: Cases
It’s 1953, and Pierce Duncan leaves college an innocent. Seeking the freedom of the road, Dunc sets off to see America. His road trip brings strange, fateful encounters: with a savage Georgia chain g …
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Joe Gores: Glass Tiger
Brendan Thorne, ex-army Ranger and master CIA sniper, has turned his back on violence. But while working as a game warden at a Kenya safari park, an FBI team appear from nowhere, kidnap him and fly h …
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Joe Gores: Honolulu, Port of Call
Honolulu: Port of Call is a unique collection of short stories of the Hawaiian islands brought together by Joe Gores: thirteen tales by legendary writers including Jack London, Herman Melville, W. So …
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Joe Gores: Speak of the Devil
Joe Gores collects here fourteen stories spanning the five decades of his varied writing career. In the title story, two bright young scientists set out to prove there is no good-dispensing God by de …
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Joe Gores: Glass Tiger
It’s election night in the US. Gustave Walberg becomes leader of the free world and legendary Vietnam sniper Halden Corwin murders his daughter and son-in-law before disappearing into the night. Driv …
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Joe Gores: Final Notice
"First-class private eye fiction." — Chicago Tribune An aging beauty’s red Cadillac is repossessed by the bank but quickly returned, thanks to a comic book on its front seat stuf …
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Joe Gores: Gone, No Forwarding
"A thriller in the best Hammett/Chandler tradition . . . Mr. Gores, as always, writes beautifully, with never a wasted word and with a fine feeling for characterization." — Th …
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Joe Gores: Hammett
"Gores . . . is as resourceful as the Master himself, and has dreamed up an evocative picture of San Francisco in 1928—with its beauty, its venality, its dirty cops and politicians. Try not …
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Peter Maravelis: San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
Dashiell Hammett and William Vollmann are just two treats in this stellar sequel to the smash-hit original volume of San Francisco Noir , which captures the dark mythology of a world-class loca …
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