Годы выпуска: 1967-2021 г. Автор: Pronzini, Bill / Пронзини, Билл Язык: Английский Формат: epub/fb2 Качество: eBook/OCR
Описание: Билл Пронзини (William John Pronzini, р. 13 апреля 1943 г.) - американский писатель, автор детективов и редактор-составитель антологий. Наиболее известен циклом "Nameless Detective". Лауреат многочисленных премий в области детектива. Переводов на русский практически нет.
It's a Lousy World / Честнее смерти Death of a Nobody One of Those Cases Sin Island Private Eye Blues The Pulp Connection Where Have You Gone, Sam Spade? Dead Man's Slough Who's Calling? Booktaker
It's a Lousy World / Честнее смерти The Pulp Connection Dead Man's Slough The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch Cat's-Paw Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern Stakeout La Bellezza delle Bellezze Souls Burning Bomb Scare The Big Bite Season of Sharing (with Marcia Muller) Wrong Place, Wrong Time
The Stalker 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-104-2, Speaking Volumes Panic! 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-106-6, Speaking Volumes The Jade Figurine 2012, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-116-5, Speaking Volumes Snowbound 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-102-8, Speaking Volumes Dead Run 1975, fb2 Freebooty 2014, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-62815-196-1, Speaking Volumes Snowbound + Games 2007, epub, ISBN: 978-1-93358-619-9, Stark House Press
Snowbound Games
Acts of Mercy 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-128-8, Speaking Volumes (with Barry N. Malzberg) Masques 1999, fb2, ISBN: 0-8439-4501-X, Dorchester Publishing Co. Border Fever 2013, epub, Crossroad Press (with Jeffrey M. Wallmann) The Eye 2014, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4804-8509-9, Open Road Integrated Media (with John Lutz) The Lighthouse 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-108-0, Speaking Volumes (with Marcia Muller) Firewind 1989, epub The Hangings 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-096-0, Speaking Volumes With an Extreme Burning (= The Tormentor) 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-61232-100-4, Speaking Volumes Blue Lonesome 2014, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4804-8501-3, Open Road Integrated Media A Wasteland of Strangers 2014, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4976-2590-7, Open Road Integrated Media Nothing But the Night 2014, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4976-2999-8, Open Road Integrated Media In an Evil Time 2014, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-4976-2915-8, Open Road Integrated Media Step to the Graveyard Easy 2011, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-8027-4359-6, Walker & Company The Crimes of Jordan Wise 2009, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-802-71825-9, Walker & Company The Other Side of Silence 2010, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-802-77755-3, Walker & Company The Hidden 2010, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-8027-7836-9, Walker & Company The Violated 2017, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-63286-662-2, Bloomsbury Give-A-Damn Jones 2018, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-7653-9440-8, Forge Books The Peaceful Valley Crime Wave 2019, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-7653-9442-2, Forge Books
Graveyard Plots 2011, epub, Crossroad Press
Cain's Mark A Lot on His Mind / Наваждение The Pattern / Тройное убийство I Don't Understand It Proof of Guilt Multiples (with Barry N. Malzberg) Sweet Fever Putting the Pieces Back Smuggler's Island Under the Skin Caught in the Act Strangers in the Fog His Name Was Legion Rebound (with Barry N. Malzberg) Black Wind A Craving for Originality Peekaboo Two Weeks Every Summer The Hanging Man Changes Cat's-Paw (A "Nameless Detective" Story) Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg (A "Nameless Detective" Story) Sanctuary (A "Nameless Detective" Story)
Small Felonies 2012, epub, Crossroad Press
A Cold Foggy Day A Dip in the Poole Something Wrong (A "Nameless Detective" Story) The Imperfect Crime Shell Game (with Jeffrey M. Wallmann) Sweet Fever Perfect Timing Dear Poisoner Thirst Skeletons The Same Old Grind / Белка в колесе His Name Was Legion The Dispatching of George Ferris Little Lamb Once a Thief (with Jeffrey M. Wallmann) Under the Skin Changes The Storm Tunnel Defect The Clincher The Facsimile Shop (with Jeffrey M. Wallmann) Waiting, Waiting . . . Peekaboo Words Do Not A Book Make Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern (A "Nameless Detective" Story) The Terrarium Principle On Guard! (with Michael Kurland) Memento Mori / Помни о смерти A Little Larceny Mrs. Rakubian Toy House Call (with Jeffrey M. Wallmann) Deathwatch Outrageous Muggers' Moon Hero (A Tale of the Old West) The Man Who Collected "The Shadow" For Love Unchained Tiger, Tiger (with John Lutz) Here Lies Another Blackmailer Buttermilk Retirement One of Those Days Don't Spend It All in One Place Cache and Carry (A "Nameless Detective"/Sharon McCone Story, with Marcia Muller) The Killing Black Wind A Case for Quiet (with Jeffrey M. Wallmann) Whodunit
Carmody's Run 2011, epub, Crossroad Press
THE DESPERATE ONES DEATH WARRANT BLOOD MONEY A RUN IN DIAMONDS
Duo 1998, fb2 (with Marcia Muller)
Part I; Stories by Marcia Muller The Cracks in the Sidewalk Sweet Cactus Wine Cattails Somewhere in the City (a Sharon McCone story) Dust to Dust Forbidden Things Part II: Stories by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini Cache and Carry: (a Sharon McCone/ "Nameless Detective" story ) The Dying Time Part III: Stories by Bill Pronzini Out of the Depths Man on the Run Home is the Place Where (a "Nameless Detective" story) Flood A Cold Foggy Day Engines
Sleuths 2011, epub, Crossroad Press
Fergus O'Hara Fergus O'Hara, Detective Carpenter and Quincannon The Desert Limited Medium Rare Dan Connell Jade Christopher Steele Vanishing Act (with Michael Kurland) Carmody The Desperate Ones Blood Money The "Nameless Detective" Dead Man's Slough A Killing in Xanadu Stakeout La Bellezza delle Bellezze
Night Freight 2011, epub, Crossroad Press
Stacked Deck Angel of Mercy Night Freight Liar's Dice Out Behind the Shed Souls Burning Strangers in the Fog Peekaboo Thirst Wishful Thinking Ancient Evil The Monster His Name Was Legion Out of the Depths The Pattern The Rec Field Deathwatch Home Tom A Taste of Paradise Sweet Fever Deathlove Black Wind The Coffin Trimmer Funeral Day I Think I Will Not Hang Myself Today
Oddments 2011, epub, Crossroad Press
The Highbinders (a Carpenter & Quincannon story) Wishful Thinking Shade Work I Think I Will Not Hang Myself Today The Man Who Collected "The Shadow" Out of the Depths Bank Job And Then We Went to Venus Putting the Pieces Back The Arrowmont Prison Riddle Caught in the Act Liar's Dice The Dispatching of George Ferris The Big Bite (a "Nameless Detective" story)
More Oddments 2013, epub, Crossroad Press
Fergus O'Hara, Detective Chip Opportunity A Craving for Originality One of Those Cases (A "Nameless Detective" Story) I Didn't Do It Quicker Than the Eye (with Michael Kurland) Angel of Mercy Connoisseur Mrs. Rakubian Smuggler's Island A Taste of Paradise Under the Skin Prose Bowl (with Barry N. Malzberg)
All the Long Years 2013, fb2, ISBN: 9781477842171, AmazonEncore
All the Long Years Lady One-Eye Hero Doc Christmas, Painless Dentist McIntosh's Chute Fyfe and the Drummers Markers "Give-A-Damn" Jones The Gambler Wooden Indian Decision Fear Not a Lick of Sense Engines
Crucifixion River Free Durt He Said ... She Said Wrong Place, Wrong Time Irrefutable Evidence The Carville Ghost Pickpocket The Dying Time
The Cemetery Man 2014, epub
The Cemetery Man Toiling in the Fields of the Lord Lines McIntosh’s Chute Trade Secret Meadowlands Spike Boobytrap Confession The Storm Tunnel The Hanging Man Putting the Pieces Back Man Cave Angelique Out of the Depths Hooch Just Looking What Happened to Mary? Caius Breakbone
The Pillars of Salt Affair 1967, fb2 Pumpkin 2012, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-1-58767-384-9, Cemetery Dance Publications Here Comes Santa Claus 1989, fb2 Charlie Chan in The Pawns of Death 2002, epub (with Jeffrey Wallmann) Possibilities 2005, fb2 Devil's Brew 2006, fb2 A Matter of Justice 2008, fb2 (with Barry N. Malzberg) Burglarproof 2010, fb2 The Body Snatchers 2010, fb2 Eve of Beyond 2011, fb2 (with Barry N. Malzberg)
Son of Gun in Cheek: An Affectionate Guide to More of the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction 2018, epub, ISBN: 9780486817989, Dover Publications
ONE
I was sitting tilted back in my office chair, reading one of Russell Dancer’s private eye stories in a 1948 Midnight Detective, when the door opened and Russell Dancer walked in. Coincidences happen now and then; I knew that as well as anybody after the Carding/Nichols case I had been involved in a few months ago. But they still jar you a little every time. I opened my mouth, closed it again, blinked a couple of times, and then got on my feet as he shut the door. “Hey there, shamus,” he said. He came through the rail divider, gave the scattered cardboard packing boxes a curious glance, and plopped the briefcase he was carrying down on the visitor’s chair. “Remember me?” “Remember you? Hell, I was just reading one of your old pulp stories.” “You kidding?” “Not a bit.” I held the magazine out for him to look at. “One of the Rex Hannigan novelettes.” Dancer glanced at the title above the interior illustration, and his sardonic mouth got even more sardonic. ” ‘There’ll be a Hot Crime in the Old Tomb Tonight!’ Frigging editors loved pun titles in those days—the worse the better.” I said, “Bad title, maybe, but a good story,” as we shook hands. “If you say so. I wouldn’t recognize a word of it after all these years.” “Don’t you ever reread your early work?” “I don’t reread what I wrote six days ago,” he said. “Besides, all my pulps went up in the fire, remember?” I remembered. It had been almost seven years ago, down the coast a hundred miles or so at a village called Cypress Bay. A woman named Judith Paige had hired me to follow her husband because he kept disappearing on weekends and she suspected he was seeing another woman. Paige led me to Cypress Bay—and straight into a nasty triple murder that revolved around tangled relationships out of the past and a twenty-year-old paperback mystery written by Dancer. The novel, through no fault of his own, had almost cost him his life—no doubt would have if he’d been home at his beach shack, instead of celebrating the completion of his latest Western with a bottle and a woman, the night it was deliberately set ablaze. . . .
Chapter 1
The cable car clattered downhill on Sutter Street, toward where the lamps lining Market shone a blurred yellow through the rain-damp night. One of the lighted buildings below was the Reception Saloon; but Quincannon, riding outside in spite of the weather, paid no attention to its beckoning glow. Once he would have marked the nearness of the Reception with keen anticipation, but for almost a year now he had done his public drinking in Hoolihan’s Irish Pub, south of Market, where the liquor was cheaper and the patrons more interested in their drinks than in their drinking companions. When the car slowed for its Market Street terminus, Quincannon dropped off. It was a chill night, with a sharp wind that slashed in from the Bay, and he drew up the collar of his greatcoat. But he scarcely felt the cold. The whiskey he had taken in his rooms on Leavenworth still warmed him like a banked fire. He walked swiftly through the light rain, down Market in the direction of the Ferry Building — a big man, dark-haired under his derby hat, with a heavy gray-shot beard and an unsmiling countenance that gave him, falsely, the look of a freebooter. It was a weeknight, just before nine o’clock, and traffic was sparse: a few pedestrians hurrying from one saloon to another, a pair of lighted trolleys passing nearby, a lone hack looking for a fare, two or three carriages with their side-curtains drawn. From somewhere on the Bay, a foghorn gave its lonesome cry. A poor night for ships, a worse one for men like himself, out on business and mostly sober. . . .
