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There are hundreds of great, cutting edge mysteries, westerns, thrillers, and literary fiction novels that were published between the 1940s and 1970s that have been out-of-print for decades, lost to generations of readers who either never knew those books even existed… or aren’t willing to slog through used bookstores to find tattered copies. Or, in some cases, the books have become so rare, only collectors can afford to own copies. We’re changing that. We’re publishing new, outrageously affordable digital and trade paperback editions of these long-lost, forgotten, and rare books that even today, are still on the cutting edge of their genres. But that’s not all. We’re also publishing selected non-fiction classics as well as some new, never-before-published titles. Whether the books are reprints or brand-new, our titles all share one thing in common—they are all fantastic, boundary-pushing stories that will entertain, thrill, shock, captivate and excite you.

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Author Crown Vic 2: If I Were a Rich Man

Crown Vic 2: If I Were a Rich Man By Lee Goldberg

Ray Boyd is an ex-con traveling the open road in a used Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, going wherever his need for money and sex lead him, thinking only of himself and nobody else.

In "If I Were a Rich Man," Goldberg's brutal, sexually explicit, and darkly funny new novella, Ray is on the trail of lost diamonds from a legendary jewelry heist...and stumbles into a twisted honey trap.

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Author Flaming Canyon

Flaming Canyon By Walker Tompkins

Del Troy is a cowman with no cows who has come a long, hard way from Texas to Flaming Canyon, the choicest range in Washington. But he dreams of his own ranch, and every long haul he makes with his Conestoga wagons, brings him closer to achieving it. And just when it seems like it might come true, Bix Herrod, a greedy cattleman backed by ruthless gunmen, wants to take it all from him

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Author The Morton Cooper Reader - Six Full Novels

The Morton Cooper Reader - Six Full Novels By Morton Cooper

Six noir masterpieces from the 1950s and 60s by Morton Cooper -- plus one bonus novel, his hard-boiled classic Call Me Killer, written under the pseudonym "Max Carter."

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Author Westering

Westering By Irwin Blacker

An epic saga of a wagon train heading west from Missouri to Oregon in 1845,  across two thousand miles of blistering prairies, raging rivers, and massive mountains, while ravaged by disease and misfortune. But the wagon train pushes relentlessly forward, driven by the migrants' unwavering hope, desire and sheer desperation. 

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Author The Tonto Kid

The Tonto Kid By Henry Herbert Knibbs

The Tonto Kid was orphaned at two, homeless at twelve, cattle rustler and killer at thirteen, But he wants nothing more than to be left alone to punch cattle like any good cowhand. He lives by a code of his own, contrary to his violent reputation. He doesn't look for trouble and won't kill a man unless the odds are even. But even so, he's hounded by killers on both sides of the law, and they are closing in on him....

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Author Come-On Girl

Come-On Girl By Stuart Friedman

Rita would do anything for kicks...like pick-up a stranger just to ruin his life

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Author Vice Squad Cop

Vice Squad Cop By Michael Carey

A raw, brutally honest of crime and vice in 1950s New York, written by an ex-NYPD vice squad cop under a pseudonym.

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Author A Crooked Trail

A Crooked Trail By Lewis B. Miller

The Story Of A Thousand-mile Saddle Trip Up And Down The Texas Frontier In Pursuit Of A Runaway Ox

A steer named Old Lep wanders off into the wildlands, pursued by a barefooted farmboy, beginning an epic pursuit that carries past pioneer cabins, through forests and mountain glens, by ranches and frontier forts until it becomes a great marching cavalcade of cattle and horses and armed and mounted men.

"A vivid, thrilling narrative. The story is intensely interesting." Boston Globe

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Author The Captive Witch

The Captive Witch By Dale Van Every

Rifleman and woodsman Adam Frane, wintering alone in the forests of Kentucky, rescues a white girl from the Cherokees who kidnapped her as a child.

"Van Every is among the best historical novel writers of our day and this is his best yet." Lewiston Sun-Journal

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Author Ghost Gold

Ghost Gold By Tom West

When the ranchers rush into the Sagebrush bank, the safe is gaping open, $40,000 in gold is missing, the cashier is dead, and Bill Saxon, a cowboy from Texas, is unconscious on the floor with a gun in his hand. Was Saxon part of the robbery crew? Is he a murderer? Saxon must prove his innocence amidst a range war between the gunmen of the Diamond Spread and local nesters.

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