Mean Streets

Mean Streets
Author: Jim Butcher
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440699941

Four bestselling fantasy authors present a collection of novellas about dark nights, cruel cities, and paranormal P.I.s—featuring Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Harper Blaine, and Remy Chandler. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher delivers a story in which Harry Dresden—Chicago's only professional wizard—tries to protect a friend from danger and ends up becoming a target himself... John Taylor is the best PI in the secret heart of London known as The Nightside. He can find anything. But locating the lost memory of a desperate woman may be his undoing in a thrilling noir tale from New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green... National bestselling author Kat Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in too deep when a job in Mexico goes awry, and Harper Blaine is enmeshed in a tangle of dark family secrets and revenge from beyond the grave... An ancient being that lived among humanity for centuries is dead, and fallen angel-turned-Boston detective Remy Chandler has been hired to find out who—or what—murdered him in a whodunit by national bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski...

Tales of Mean Streets

Tales of Mean Streets
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2020-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752416734

Reproduction of the original: Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison

Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir

Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir
Author: J.M. Redmann
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1602825386

Women. Crime. Justice. At least the search for it. On the mean streets, the back allies, the dark corners. These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.

Mean Streets

Mean Streets
Author: Peter McSherry
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2002-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 145971444X

Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada's largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, snakes, politicians, celebrities . . . he's experienced them all. McSherry serves up his stories with forthrightness, humour, and the occasional dash of cynicism. In this well-written and street-smart book, the author tells the rest of us about a world we can only imagine - if we dare.

Down These Mean Streets

Down These Mean Streets
Author: Keith R. A. DeCandido
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2005-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416509682

The amazing adventures of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man continue in this all-new novel. A new designer drug with physically altering side effects sweeps through New York, leaving behind utter chaos. As Spider-Man stumbles onto the drug's origin, he almost must face one of his most fearsome enemies. Original.

Times Square Rabbi

Times Square Rabbi
Author: Yehudah Fine
Publisher: Unlimited Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781588320438

Yehudah Fine, family therapist and rabbi, is the author of Amazon.com's bestselling recovery title Times Square Rabbi. Based on his experiences on the streets of New York, the book describes his programs to encourage stronger family links. Fully returnable.

Mean Streets

Mean Streets
Author: Brett M. Bernstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780977067398

Explore the best and bleakest aspects of film noir in this roleplaying game that draws on classic films of the Forties for inspiration. Chase down missing persons and investigate murders with the grittiness and cynicism of film noir. Portray private detectives, femmes fatales, desperate district attorneys, con-artists, government agents, reporters, and other classic staples of the genre.

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Modernista
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9181080999

»A Tale of the Ragged Mountains« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1844. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stints in academia and the military, he began working as a literary critic and author. He made his debut with the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, but it was in his short stories that Poe's peculiar style truly flourished. He died in Baltimore in 1849.