Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life

Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet.

Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a Chris Lavery. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing on account of the two bullet holes in his heart.

Featuring more than 2,000 quotations from notable women ranging from Mary Shelley to Courtney Love, this collection explores the meaning of life, love, and laughter from a woman's perspective. From Dorothy Parker to Susan Sarandon, it aims to offer classic one-liners, laugh-out-loud turns of phrase, and more.

The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present.

An account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier, this book is written in the words of the men and women of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, who complete a dangerous and bloody six-month tour of duty.

A controversial book supporting the theory that Allied Soldiers in World War One were 'Lions led by Donkeys'.

Memoirs of the Iraq war hero whose stirring pre-battle speech so inspired his troops - and the world

Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. It becomes complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead.

This collection brings together the very best of Dashiell Hammett's early stories featuring the Continental Op, the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.

Story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross. When it comes to pulling off the perfect bank job, Doc McCoy wrote the book. His partner Rudy Torrento, who is not only treacherous, but insane, and his wife is still an amateur. When the crime is big & bloody enough there is no such thing a clean getaway.