Ekstasis
Noir
Literary gumshoe and mystery fiction from Ekstasis Editions. |
Martin
S. Cohen |
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ISBN 1-896860-93-1 Heads You Lose
(fiction) 19.95
published 2002 314 pages
Heads You Lose follows Saul Jacobson as he treks across Western
Canada with a sullen teenager in tow. Part macabre crime tale, part coming-of-age
chronicle, the novel is also a very humourous road story that celebrates
the redemptive power of friendship. |
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Jim
Christy |
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ISBN 1-896860-10-9 Shanghai Alley (fiction) 16.95
published 1997 200 pages
Vancouver, Chinatown, 1936. While the bread lines get longer and the
whole world goes crazy, wise-cracking gumshoe Gene Castle has his own
worries. In Shanghai Alley, while on the trail of missing union
funds, he goes fist to fist with corrupt cops, sleazy politicians and
ruthless gangsters. |
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ISBN 1-896860-86-9 Princess and Gore (fiction)
18.95
published 2000 186 pages
In 1939 the depression is lifting and war is threatening in Europe. Private
Eye Gene Castle is back in Vancouver and theres even a client in
his office. The case seems easy enough for a cynic and seasoned gumshoe
like Castle until people start dying. |
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ISBN 1-894800-08-7 Terminal Avenue (fiction) 19.95
published 2002 200 pages
The war is in full swing and private eye Gene Castle is back on the wet
streets of Vancouver. In this third installment of the Vancouver Trilogy
Castle has to evade Nazis, a freakishly strong woman and the usual corrupt
cops to find the kidnapped daughter of a friend who is involved in the
resistance. |
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ISBN 1978-1-897430-20-0 Nine O'Clock Gun (fiction)
22.95
published 2008 156 pages
In Nine O’Clock Gun, the fourth and final novel of his
Gene Castle, hard-boiled Private Eye series, Castle’s back in his
room at the faded Rose Hotel, back at his table at Ramona’s Cafe,
but the woman in his life has taken her seamed silk stockings and walked.
Vancouver is as dangerous as ever, though, and Castle’s just the
man to solve the string of murders striking a little too close to home. |
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Jamie
Dopp |
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ISBN 1-896860-71-0 Prospects Unknown (fiction)
17.95
published 2000 322 pages
The victims are the Soledads, a family of refugees from a South American
country. Who had reason to kill them? Who in this town didnt? Prospects
Unknown is a literary thriller that offers a compelling detective
story alongside a witty meditation on the relationship between fiction
and reality. |
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Al
MacLachlan |
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ISBN 1-894800-78-8 After the Funeral (fiction)
21.95
published 2006 160 pages
In After the Funeral, a man wakes up beside the lifeless body
of a stranger. He has no memory of his own identity or past. Has there
been a murder and is he, in fact, the murderer? In this gripping
first novel, Al MacLachlan probes the paranoia that leads to insanity,
when everything familiar suddenly becomes strange. |
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