The SoapBox Library
Public domain first. Nothing here is anybody else's file rehosted.
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Books & documents
- Mystery and suspense writers : the literature of crime, detection, and espionage (1998) — Winks, Robin W, Corrigan, Maureen Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Rogue For Men, July 1957 (1957) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
- Behind the mystery : top mystery writers (2005) — Kaminsky, Stuart M Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Alfred Hitchcock's a choice of evils (1983) — None Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Manhattan mysteries (1997) — Pronzini, Bill, Waugh, Carol-Lynn Rössel, Greenberg, Martin Harry, Ellery Queen, Donald E. Westlake, Cornell Woolrich Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback) (1962) — Donald E. Westlake Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Transgressions (2005) — Evan Hunter, Jeffery Deaver, John Farris, Stephen King, Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Perry, Donald E. Westlake, Lawrence Block Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Merely Hate - Walking the Line - Walking Around Money (2006) — Evan Hunter, Walter Mosley, Donald Westlake Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Orion Book of Murder (1996) — Peter Haining Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Big Book of Noir (1997) — Lee Server, Martin H. Greenberg, Edward Gorman Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Alfred Hitchcock's A Hangman's Dozen (1966) — Alfred Hitchcock Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Agents of treachery (2010) — Otto Penzler Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Thrillers (2010) — David Morrell, Hank Wagner Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A Century of Noir (2002) — Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Various Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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What the labels mean
- host
- Public domain, from Project Gutenberg. Read it here, or take the epub or plain text.
- window
- Internet Archive holds the book and its reader. We point you into their reader; we store nothing.
- aggregate
- Open Library metadata only. We show the record and link out; rights vary and are theirs to state.