Historias de Hard-boiled

In 1950s Los Angeles, prolific "people-finder", RICK YOUNGE must find an embezzling mob accountant, a missing dead husband (who might not be so dead after all), a mystery by-mail 'secret admirerer', and his own kidnapped dog, all while trying to keep the lights on for another month and stay sober long enough to ponder what life's all about in this debut adventure for L.A.'s most 'by-the-seat-of-his-wrinkled-pants' private detective.

Julius Q. Bygone: Supernatural Sleuth of Shadows When a Brooklyn smoke shop is hit by a vengeful ghost, desperate lovers call Julius Q. Bygone-a hard-boiled paranormal investigator with a fedora, a red feather, and a talent for dealing with the dead. What begins as a routine haunting explodes into a noir spiral of betrayal, greed, murder, and redemption, where the living are far more dangerous than the ghosts.

Hidari moves to Lumiose city recently to apply for an apprenticeship at the Looker Bureau to make his dream of being a Hard-boiled Detective come true with also starting his Pokémon Journey in Lumiose he will discover the Mystery of this city and the legendary Pokémon Zygarde

LOS ANGELES -- MAY, 2048 The slums are drowning -- and nobody seems to give a damn. What's more, a cold case just landed on SP5-2.1's desk and it's already getting red hot. A rogue Nexus-9 has confessed to a grisly murder. Problem is, the killing took place before his incept date. The memory was implanted-but how, why, and by whom? Now, S and her rookie partner Kazo must untangle a web of genetic intrigue while the Wallace Corporation breathes down their necks, all before the city takes its last gasping breath.

A man named Mike Johnson who is a detective is asked to a investigate the murder of a wealthy man name Richard Cole and while trying to find who did he gets framed for killing the alleged murderer.

Get out of the way, heroes and heroines: it's the losers' turn to save the world! Agatha is an ill-tempered boarding school student inside whose mind a secret has been implanted by the secretive Order of Remembrance; Tristan is a clumsy dreamer looking for his occasion to perform heroic deeds. Keeping fugitive Agatha safe for a single night seems Tristan's great occasion, but he doesn't know he's going to get way more than he bargained for. For nineteen centuries, the ancient machines called Faraway Bridges have connected the Lands Beyond, the remote places where mankind dwells, but now the Bridges are dying and crossing them is almost lethal. Hiding in fortified abbeys, the Libraries, the Order of Remembrance has the mission of finding a way to heal the Bridges before they become impassable, but the Awakening League wants to seize control of the Bridges for its own plans of conquest, and is storming the Libraries one by one to steal the Order's knowledge. Caught in the crossfire of the centuries-long war between the Order of Remembrance and the Awakening League, chased by monsters and machines across lands and skies, Tristan and Agatha embark on a quest to unveil the secret inside Agatha's mind, and end up realizing that Agatha is the key to an ancient power that can heal their dying world.

'Rev' Parata is a PI stuck in the orbit of the Big Easy in the 1980's. Life is rough, and he's barely fending off racists and criminals when a member of the British aristocracy offers him a case that is too good to be true. Chasing down his mark, Rev finds himself face-to-face with powers beyond understanding and turns to his people's medicine to guide him through.

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. Except those cases that involved bots. Until a beautiful woman, a beautiful bot created to mimic a beautiful woman to perfection, hands him the case of a serial bot killer. The investigation takes him from deepest, darkest pits, to the gleaming, cleanest Sectors of the Tether, where Dalton finds himself involved in a conspiracy that could cost the lives of thousands, millions of humans. Walking a fine line between the human and bot worlds, Dalton must face his own humanity and mortality to bring a genius killer to justice. A hardboiled, cyberpunk, noir detective story, set in the same world as "Anna In The Garden". 🥉3rd Place, The Ōkami Awards, Sci-Fi category - Sept '22🥉 🏵Featured by @BadassReads, 'The Dauntless' Reading list - Sept '23🏵 Cover created in Canva, using an AI generated picture.

Five years ago, the whole country knew Howl as the face of a national public safety initiative that encouraged kids to say no to drugs, keep away from firearms, and not talk to strangers. He had just made a dramatic exit from the corrupt pit of the Hot Type City Police Department and kicked off his own private investigative agency. He was geared up to start helping people for real. Then some punk put Howl's nephew in the dirt, and everything came to a screeching halt. Now, after a long downward spiral, Howl is one half-empty bottle of scotch away from complete destitution. His shot at redemption comes just in time when a former model struts off the page of a golden-age girlie mag and into his office. Her missing son's disappearance knocks Howl back into a world full of the drugs, guns, and predators he wasted his youth fighting. This time it will be different. He's got nothing to lose but something to prove. This time, he will win.

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

Jim is a private investigator who thought he'd seen it all. He took another easy job for a straight-laced professor and was already counting the money before he was paid. But the device Jim was sent to retrieve is more powerful than he could have imagined. Every notion he's ever had about time and space goes out the window as he struggles to find a way back home.

Homicide desk reporter Bobby Knight knows there's a story, but what that story is he can't figure out. When you got five people dead in the same area, all looking like the same cause within five days, then there's a story. When the area is a grave yard, that makes it sound like it might be a good story. But when the apparent cause of death is -- nothing -- it makes the story hard to tell.

The dame who walked into P.I. Amelia Archer's office that day wasn't pretty, but she had a dog of a tale to tell. Beggars can't be choosers, though, and soon Archer is off down the Shufelt Tunnel in search of lizard men, a diamond bracelet, and maybe even a bit of fun with an old flame.

"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 trying to get him out of the way until things cool down at MI6. Although it is meant to be down time, in James Bond's world trouble is never far behind. Soon after his arrival, James is being pursued by members of the European underworld and is caught in the deadly clutches one of the most vicious killers he has ever faced. James Bond discovers that sometimes the greatest criminals can hide in plain sight and uncovering the truth could have consequences he could never have imagined. A man of honour gets his job done, but at what cost?

A week at the beach could kill you. Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae's stay in Ocean City for the annual Maryland bar association convention becomes a busman's holiday when her best friend Jamila is arrested for murder. All signs point to a frame, but Jamila's local counsel advises her to plea bargain. This would permanently stain the ambitious attorney's spotless record, unless Sam and a private investigator can find evidence to clear her. Sam has her work cut out for her, since the victim is the stepson of a local wealthy entrepreneur and poultry producer and no one will talk to her, including the lawyer's investigator. Even Jamila seems to be withholding information. Meanwhile, Sam's running from mysterious pursuers and comes under police scrutiny when another murder takes place. With the clock ticking down to the convention and preliminary hearing, Sam must uncover secrets, lies, and fraud to find the real killer. At what cost will that knowledge come for Sam?

Copyright © Roger Stelljes The beautiful young woman is perfectly still, curled up in the trunk of the car, her long dark hair hiding her face. Her cotton blouse has ridden up a little, revealing two small dots an inch apart on her back. Just like the others. Guilt has kept FBI Agent Tori Hunter away from her home in Manchester Bay, Minnesota for twenty years, ever since her twin sister disappeared on the Fourth of July, when the girls should have been together. But when she receives an anonymous newspaper clipping about another missing girl, Genevieve, Tori is dragged back to the past. Just like Tori's sister, Genevieve vanished without a trace, her empty car abandoned on a lonely lakeside road as Independence Day fireworks lit up the sky overhead. Returning to Minnesota lake country, Tori finds Genevieve's distraught parents desperate for answers. How could their beautiful, popular daughter be snatched so near her own home? Under pressure to make an arrest, the police have no time for Tori's theories. Besides, they already have a suspect for Genevieve's abductor: a local man seen flirting with her the night she disappeared. But then the suspect is found dead in his isolated cabin, days before another girl's body is discovered bound and strangled in the trunk of her car, two strange dots on her back. The bloodstains surrounding her body belong to the one man Tori thought she could trust. Reeling, Tori knows the closer she gets to the truth, the more her own life is at risk. But can she catch this killer before it's too late for Genevieve? An absolutely addictive mystery thriller that will have you turning the pages late into the night. Perfect for fans of Kendra Elliot, Robert Dugoni and Tess Gerritsen. Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible, Rakuten Kobo, Google Play and Apple. (Published by Bookouture)

Two opposing detectives (a dead-beat alcoholic and a Christian war-veteran) are teamed up as they are committed to solving a mysterious serial murder case. Year started: 2020 Year finished: TBD

Dawson City, Canada As the town is poisoned by rumors of a "haunted Factory" much to Josiah's annoyance. Lt. Detective Josiah Jordan decides to investigate in hopes to finally put this silly urban legend to rest. Little does he know the true horror he may uncover at that place... a horror that could change everything...

Los Angeles, 1990, an animated town of neon, money, and dirty secrets. You need someone to dig behind the shiny, happy veneers of Hollywood and Toon Town only one duck is worth calling- Toon private investigator Quentin Fowl. When the party-girl sister of Ariel the Little Mermaid goes missing Fowl is hired by a Disney exec named Otto Werkenger to track her down. Unfortunately for Fowl, this duck is about to find himself out in unknown, dark waters, and it'll take all the Toon detective skills he has to save his own feathers. Set in the world of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" this is an 80s-style noir detective story in a time when Toons stopped being funny and started getting serious. In the course of his investigation Quentin Fowl will come upon many cartoon characters of that day and yesteryear, including Bart Simpson, Fritz the Cat, and more.

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 essere scarcerato... ma con un prezzo. Come la maggior parte dei miei racconti, questo titolo inizia a un certo punto e termina a un certo punto. Non ha un inizio stabilito o una fine, consideratelo come una sorta di esperimento. Magari se a qualche lettore piace, potrei completarlo in seguito, chi sa! Non conosco bene la classificazione di Watttpad, ma il racconto non è violento, sanguinario o altro; essendo ambientato in un penitenziario americano ha un linguaggio un pò... colorito, per fare più scena. Buona lettura!