The Dark City Murders

The Dark City Murders
Author: Mark Davie
Publisher: ECONO Publishing Company
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2023-03-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In "The Dark City Murders: A Detective's Race Against Time," Detective James Monroe takes readers on a gripping journey through the investigation of one of the most heinous crimes in the city's history. When a string of murders rocks the city, Detective Monroe is tasked with leading the investigation. As the body count rises, Monroe and his team race against time to identify the killer and bring him to justice. But as the investigation unfolds, they quickly realize that the killer is cunning, elusive, and determined to evade capture. The team is forced to navigate a complex web of lies, corruption, and danger, as they race to uncover the killer's identity and prevent further bloodshed. As the case reaches its dramatic conclusion, Detective Monroe is forced to confront the toll that the investigation has taken on him, and to grapple with the emotional aftermath of the murders. This true crime story offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of law enforcement, as well as the psychological toll of violent crime on its victims and the communities affected. With its compelling narrative and richly-drawn characters, "The Dark City Murders" is a must-read for fans of true crime and mystery alike.

Dark City

Dark City
Author: Eddie Muller
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 076249896X

This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume. Dark Cityexpands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination. It's a place where the men and women who created film noir often find themselves dangling from the same sinister heights as the silver-screen avatars to whom they gave life. Eddie Muller, host of Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, takes readers on a spellbinding trip through treacherous terrain: Hollywood in the post-World War II years, where art, politics, scandal, style -- and brilliant craftsmanship -- produced a new approach to moviemaking, and a new type of cultural mythology.

Murder in the Dark City: A Weird Future Detective Blaze Story

Murder in the Dark City: A Weird Future Detective Blaze Story
Author: Steven Farkas
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2017-01-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1365674673

Murder in the Dark City is a Pulp fiction story set in the year 2300. The private detective is Blue Blaze a robot who like the robots of the future, is a former police detective who has been put out to pasture in a future United States in which there is no education, no jobs, and little hope except for the super rich. Blaze is hired to find out who killed the wealthy Everett Kristoff. As he follows the clues he finds the killer much closer and devious than ever could be imagined. This like the pulp of the 1930's set in the distant future. A science fiction story with a pulp fiction feel.

Dark City

Dark City
Author: Kit Hallows
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-09-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539538028

Black Magic. Ritual Murders. Ancient Secrets. Welcome to the Dark City. Vampires, demons, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night are all in a day's work for supernatural Detective Morgan Rook. Until a malevolent force arrives, a force darker than anything he's ever known. When a new wave of ritual murders hits the city, Morgan thinks he's finally found his sworn enemy; the witch who cursed and killed the woman he loved. The witch he means to destroy by any means necessary. But as corpses appear inscribed with strange occult symbols, and rigged with paranormal traps, Morgan realizes he's facing a terrifying new evil. And that the only way of stopping the killer is to confront his own past by entering a terrifying labyrinth of shadows. Dark City is a fast paced urban fantasy supernatural thriller brimming with magic, spine-chilling horror and otherworldly monsters.

Dark City

Dark City
Author: Simon Read
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0750991577

The blackout went into effect three days before the declaration of war and transformed nocturnal London into a criminal's paradise. As the city pulled together in the face of terrible adversity, the bomb-ravaged streets became the stalking grounds for killers, rapists, looters and gangs. The number of bodies retrieved during the Blitz made it impossible for the authorities to autopsy them all, providing cover to those who worked with blades, guns and more sinister tools. Scotland Yard – its resources stretched to the limit – did its best to tackle a rogues' gallery born of bombs and blackout, and crimes that continue to fascinate from history's darkest corners. In Dark City, award-winning crime writer Simon Read paints a vivid picture of the other side of wartime London, from the Blackout Ripper and the Acid Bath Murders, to the notorious Rillington Place killer and his house of corpses.

The Dark City

The Dark City
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9781612320281

THE UNTOUCHABLES WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Alfonse "Scarface" Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it's 1935. With the Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of bent cops is dealing in vice, graft, gambling and labor racketeering, overlorded by a mysterious top cop known as "the outside chief " But between corrupt politicians, jealous colleagues, a parasitic reporter and two blondes with nothing in common. Ness has big troubles pulling the sheets off the bed of blue vipers. Until the outside chief makes a move, and Ness moves just a bit quicker. THE DARK CITY MAX ALLAN COLLINS, a Shamus-winning master of mystery and suspense, has here skillfully woven fact and fiction to create a unique mystery series based on the life and exploits of one of America's most memorable heroes, Eliot Ness. The Dark City is the first in this rich, exciting new series.

Too Dark City

Too Dark City
Author: John Gerts
Publisher: John Streg Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1732603480

Too Dark City, a neo-noir novel, set in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1948, features a black detective, Moses Webb, and his side kick, Harry Martensen, a radioman and photographer. As a detective with the Kalamazoo Police, Moses Webb was shot in the left arm and shoulder during a drugstore robbery, forcing him to resign from the force. Now divorced, Moses works as a second-shift auto mechanic. As a favor, he investigates Marvin Simmons, a teenage basketball phenom. The police and prosecuting attorney have written the boy off as a Northside delinquent. The Shakespeare Company manufactures fishing tackle and grew to employ over 600 workers after World War II. Most of the employees wanted to be represented by a union. Eventually, the workers walked out on strike, and four months later, a riot ensued. Moses and his friend, Harry Martensen, an Air Force reservist radioman and amateur photographer, work through a list of suspects connected to the Shakespeare riot, the Red Scare, drug dealers, and red-line establishment politicians. One by one, the suspects Moses and Harry investigate, turn up missing or dead. Further complicating the case, Moses falls for Marvin's mother who is a nurse and has the best-looking legs on the north side of Kalamazoo.

A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City

A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City
Author: David Dominé
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1643138642

This true crime saga—with an eccentric Southern backdrop—introduces the reader to the story of a murder in a crumbling Louisville mansion and the decades of secrets and corruption that live within the old house’s walls. On June 18, 2010, police discover a body buried in the wine cellar of a Victorian mansion in Old Louisville. James Carroll, shot and stabbed the year before, has lain for 7 months in a plastic storage bin—his temporary coffin. Homeowner Jeffrey Mundt and his boyfriend, Joseph Banis, point the finger at each other in what locals dub The Pink Triangle Murder. On the surface, this killing appears to be a crime of passion, a sordid love tryst gone wrong in a creepy old house. But as author David Dominé sits in on the trials, a deeper story emerges: the struggle between hope for a better future on the one hand and the privilege and power of the status quo on the other. As the court testimony devolves into he-said/he-said contradictions, David draws on the confidences of neighbors, drag queens, and other acquaintances within the city's vibrant LGBTQ community to piece together the details of the case. While uncovering the many past lives of the mansion itself, he enters a murky underworld of gossip, neighborhood scandal, and intrigue.

Darker than Night

Darker than Night
Author: Tom Henderson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1429997087

A chilling account of the murders of two hunters in rural Michigan—a mystery that haunted a community and baffled the police for two decades. In the bitter cold of 1985, two buddies from Detroit embark on a hunting trip to the Michigan wilderness, unaware they will soon become the hunted. The eerie silence surrounding their sudden disappearance is broken after nearly two decades when a relentless investigator inspires a terrified witness to break her silence. The witness narrates a haunting scene that had unfolded years back, pointing fingers at the prime suspects—the Duvall brothers. With no bodies unearthed, the justice system is riveted by the startling revelations during an electrifying trial in 2003. The brothers, Raymond and Donald Duvall, had bragged about the murders, evocatively explaining how they dismembered their victims and fed them to pigs. Despite the shocking confession, the case holds its ground purely on a single witness’s account, taking the courtroom through a labyrinth of dark secrets and sinister acts. This gripping thriller presents a vivid tale of crime that reveals the devastating power of evil.

Dark City

Dark City
Author: Frank Lauria
Publisher: Saint Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1997-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312963439

The police track down murder suspect John Murdock, unaware that he holds the key to the mysterious forces that have taken control of the city.