Near death, Stanley Ahearn awakes three days after meeting a tearful woman in a San Francisco bar to discover he is missing a kidney and vows to exact revenge

Prelude to a Scream

Literature & Fiction

Nisbet, Jim

United States

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Martin Windrow, a private detective, investigates the brutal murder and mutilation of a young woman

The Damned Don't Die (Original Title : The Gourmet)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Black Lizard Books

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.]  [Read by John McLain] Jim Nisbet's cult classic Lethal Injection, one of the first Black Lizard Books originals, has been out of print in the United States for an unforgivably long time -- but now it's back, and on audio. And -- It's about as noir as you can get.  In a bleak Texas prison, Franklin Royce, an alcoholic doctor, is given the odious task of administering inmate Bobby Mencken's last ''high.'' The young black man on the other end of the needle seems remarkably indifferent to his fate -- but Royce is convinced that the convicted killer was innocent. When Royce's marriage crumbles, he takes off for Dallas to search for the real killer.  Of Nisbet, Germany's Die Welt wrote, ''Neither Norman Mailer nor Truman Capote has in their writing been able to produce such an intensity as Nisbet has achieved.'' -- With sharp humor and a poet's ear for language, Nisbet has created a world that is assuredly bleak -- but frighteningly real.

Lethal Injection

Mattie Brooke, an attractive waitress in the tiny town of Dip, Washington, finds her life made a living nightmare when she engages in a tryst with traveling salesman Tucker Harris

Death Puppet

Photographs by Shelly Vogel. San Francisco 1992 first edition. sm4to wraps. 65p. Poetry with bw photo illus. ISBN 0926664123. VG plus. no ownership marks.

Small Apt

Poetry

Thumbscrew

The Price of the Ticket

Dennis McMillan Pubns

Action-packed and witty, this hard-boiled caper is Jim Nisbet at his finestIn The Syracuse Codex, Nisbet returns in a wild tale of skullduggery, mayhem, and history peopled with a rogue’s gallery of the eccentric and unscrupulous.San Francisco frame maker Danny Kestrel regularly rubs elbows with the rich and immoral at art openings and commissions. But he’s never dreamt of entering their lurid world until Renée Knowles―interior decorator, billionaire’s wife, nymphomaniac―asks for a ride.When Knowles is murdered soon after their one-night stand, Danny finds himself a prime suspect. Renée’s death has stirred up a hornet’s nest of fabulously crooked and wealthy collectors of black market historical artifacts, all seeking the crown jewel: the eponymous Syracuse Codex, a secret account of Empress Theodora’s illegitimate son. Worse, everyone seems to think Danny has it.

The Syracuse Codex

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

Dark Companion

Contemporary

Gritty, dark, and utterly addictive, Octopus on My Head is Jim Nisbet at his absolute best. Resigning himself to the doldrums of middle age, the only thing Curly Watkins has left of his former life as a punk rocker is a guitar and a tattoo of an octopus on his head. But his quiet new life quickly evaporates when old vices come back to haunt him, leading to a newfound hell of drugs, drink, and murder.

The Octopus on My Head

Dennis Mcmillan

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Prelude to a Scream

The Damned Don't Die (Original Title : The Gourmet)

Lethal Injection

Death Puppet

Small Apt

The Price of the Ticket

The Price of the Ticket

The Syracuse Codex

Dark Companion

The Octopus on My Head