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San Francisco Noir(1st Edition)
(Akashic Noir Anthologies)
by Peter Maravelis, David Corbett, Barry Gifford, Jon Longhi, Alvin Lu, Eddie Muller, Jim Nisbet, Peter Plate, Sin Soracco, Michelle Tea, Kate Braverman, Robert Mailer Anderson, Will Christopher Baer, Alejandro Murguía, Domenic Stansberry, David Henry Sterry, June Wright
Paperback, 325 Pages, Published 2005 by Akashic Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-888451-91-7, ISBN: 1-888451-91-2

"Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguia, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry. "San Francisco Noir" lashes out with hard-biting, all-original tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay." Virtuosos of the genre meet up with ..."






Paris Noir(1st Edition)
Capital Crime Fiction
by Maxim Jakubowski, Barry Gifford, Cara Black, Dominique Manotti, Dominique Sylvain, Jake Lamar, Jason Starr, Jean-Hughes Oppel, Jerome Charyn, Jim Nisbet, John Williams, John Harvey, Marc Villard, Romain Slocombe, Scott Phillips, Sparkle Hayter, Stella Duffy, Ros Schwartz, Michael Moorcock
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Serpent's Tail
ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-966-9, ISBN: 1-85242-966-6

" Paris Noir is a collection of new stories about the dark side of Paris, with contributions by leading French, British, and American authors who have all lived there. The stories range from quietly menacing to spectacularly violent, and include contributions from some of the most famous crime writers from both sides of the Atlantic.Contributors include: Cara Black, Jerome Charyn, Stella Duffy, Barry Gifford, Sparkle Hayter, John Harvey, ..."






The Annals of San Francisco
Containing a Summary of the History of . California, and a Complete History of . Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens (Paperback)
by John H. Gihon, Frank Soule, Jim Nisbet
Paperback, Published 2018 by Franklin Classics Trade Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-344-48579-4, ISBN: 0-344-48579-X






The Annals of San Francisco
Containing a Summary of the History of . California, and a Complete History of . Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens (Paperback)
by John H. Gihon, Jim Nisbet, Frank Soulé
Paperback, Published 2017 by Andesite Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-375-83117-8, ISBN: 1-375-83117-8






The Syracuse Codex
by Jim Nisbet
416 Pages, Published 2016 by The Overlook Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-1199-0, ISBN: 1-4683-1199-9

"In 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 ..."






The Price of the Ticket
A Novel
by Jim Nisbet
320 Pages, Published 2015 by Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-1198-3, ISBN: 1-4683-1198-0

"The author would like to thank the translator of the French edition, Freddy Michalski, and the director of the Collection Rivages/Noir, François Guérif, for their friendship, hard work, and irrepressible enthusiasm. I'm not worried about going to ..."






The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of ... California, and a Complete History of ... its Great City
To Which are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens
by Jim Nisbet, Frank Soulé
Hardcover, 850 Pages, Published 2015 by Arkose Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-343-89462-4, ISBN: 1-343-89462-X

"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."






The Annals Of San Francisco
Containing A Summary Of The History Of The First Discovery, Settlement, Progress And Present Condition Of California, And A Complete History Of ... Its Great City
by Frank Soulé, Jim Nisbet, John H. Gihon
Hardcover, 846 Pages, Published 2015 by Palala Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-343-43246-8, ISBN: 1-343-43246-4

"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."






Death Puppet
A Novel
by Jim Nisbet
224 Pages, Published 2014 by The Overlook Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-1049-8, ISBN: 1-4683-1049-6

"Lize could explain to a T what a cow was doing, or how a weasel would work a henhouse, or what an owl was waiting on a ... And that terminal experience was all she needed to decide Jed had grown up into something that wasn't worth spit."






Prelude to a Scream(Reprint)
A Novel
by Jim Nisbet
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by Harry N. Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-1-59020-199-2, ISBN: 1-59020-199-X

"One such night, he finds himself sharing an otherwise deserted bar with a green-eyed woman. Three days later, Stanley wakes to find himself zipped into a sleeping bag, left for dead. He's missing a kidney, and a doctor kindly informs him that there's something wrong--fatally wrong--with his remaining kidney. So Stanley Ahearn finds himself on the street with a new perspective. If he wants revenge, he has to find the woman with the green ..."






Green Arcade
Snitch World
by Jim Nisbet
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-60486-876-0, ISBN: 1-60486-876-7






Prelude to a Scream
A Novel
by Jim Nisbet
400 Pages, Published 2013 by Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-0814-3, ISBN: 1-4683-0814-9

"“Like standing on the edge of the world, huh Felix?” Fong prattled. Felix said nothing. “Huh, Felix?” Fong coaxed. “Here, Felix,” he added, as if calling a recalcitrant cat. Felix considered the shack. The other three humans on the roof might just as well have been orphaned TV antennas. Felix upended the Coke can and emptied it into his upturned mouth. Then he crushed the can in his pudgy fist and hooked the dripping wreckage over ..."






Octopus on My Head
A Novel
by Jim Nisbet
240 Pages, Published 2013 by Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-0851-8, ISBN: 1-4683-0851-3

"Jim Nisbet . . ..., ... . . . |||||||||Will * M - ... . - "Jim Nishet ... might remind you of a younger Kurt Wonnegut." Lehicago inibune UW ERL I. D. K. IHE [][[[P]$ []| MW HEH! ALSO BY JIM NISBET —NOVELS—. Front Cover."






Snitch World
by Jim Nisbet
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-306-02296-5, ISBN: 1-306-02296-7






Green Arcade
Snitch World
by Jim Nisbet
224 Pages, Published 2013 by Pm Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60486-874-6, ISBN: 1-60486-874-0

"Patrick: So we are sitting here at an undisclosed location in Hayes Valley, San Francisco,with ]im N isbet, Patrick Marks, copublisher and proprietor of The Green Arcade, and Gent Sturgeon, who did the cover art. Jim: Fabulous cover. I love that cover. And I am a man of many covers—like Frank Sinatra. Patrick: Well, as you know, I have been a lounge singer and occasionally I will have someone come up and say, accuse ingly: “You onl ..."






Snitch World
by Jim Nisbet
Published 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1-60486-875-3, ISBN: 1-60486-875-9






Old and Cold
by Jim Nisbet
160 Pages, Published 2012 by Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-0187-8, ISBN: 1-4683-0187-X

"What's a guy to do, when he lives under a bridge and has an unshakeable thirst for martinis? kill for cash. so goes the logic at the heart of Old and Cold, leading to a spree of hits that are sometimes perfectly executed, sometimes messy, ..."






Spiders Cage
A Novel
by Jim Nisbet
176 Pages, Published 2012 by Abrams
ISBN-13: 978-1-4683-0506-7, ISBN: 1-4683-0506-9

"Jim Nisbet ... light back and forth, and shrugged. “Needs a bulb.” He pulled the seatback forward, revealing two empty oil cans sitting on a nest of brown pine needles and yellowed newspaper. “Plenty of room in back. You could practically live in it, and you definitely,” he winked lasciviously, “could spend some time in it at the drivein, my man my man.” Windrow looked under the hood. “Start it,” he said. Mad Bruce ground the start ..."






Green Arcade Ser.
A Moment of Doubt
by Jim Nisbet
144 Pages, Published 2010 by Pm Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60486-473-1, ISBN: 1-60486-473-7

"ISBN: 978-1-60486-089-4 224 pages $15.95 Douglas Pike is no longer the murderous hustler he was in his youth, but reforming ... Nathan Singer “This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice — blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page." — Stephen Graham jones Thejook Gary Phillips ISBN: 978-1-60486-040-5 256 pages $15.95 Zelmont Raines."






Lethal Injection
A Novel
by Jim Nisbet
160 Pages, Published 2010 by The Overlook Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59020-586-0, ISBN: 1-59020-586-3

"“That's true,” George said. “I thought they hadda have at least two eyewitnesses before they'd give a man the death penalty.” “God forbid it should be the two a you,” Ella said. “Couldn't tell a bull from a steer if it tried to mount you.” George ..."



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