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Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Abandoned cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories: noir-ish narratives united by their exploration of the vast American mythology by way of the desperate and haunted characters who populate its pages"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Harper Connelly mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Harper Connelly, a woman with the ability to uncover the final location of a recently deceased individual and to share their last moments, aided by her stepbrother Tolliver, uses her skill to find the dead.
5) Agent Moose
Author
Series
Agent Moose volume 1
Publisher
a Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Something fishy is going on at the South Shore. Folks just disappear and are never seen again. But when Agent Moose learns that a key witness has gone missing, he and Owlfred ride to the rescue. Will they find the missing turtle before time runs out?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats, is living in strange times. Alien writing has appeared in the sky, and people fear the that the End Days may be coming.
7) The graphic canon of crime & mystery: Vol. 2,From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to Silence of the lambs
Series
Graphic canon volume 6
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Here are Teddy Goldenberg's dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett's "The Road Home," often considered the first hard-boiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win. Plus twenty-three other contributors using a wide range of illustrative styles. As with...
8) The graphic canon of crime & mystery: Vol. 1,From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø
Series
Graphic canon volume 5
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From James M. Cain to Stephen King, from Sophocles to the Marquis de Sade to Iceberg Slim, here are stunning and sometimes macabre visualizations of some of the greatest crime and mystery stories of all time. Rick Geary brings his crisp style to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; C. Frakes resurrects the forgotten novella "Talma Gordon," the first mystery written by an African American. Crime finds new life in these graphic renditions of The Arabian...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this highly anticipated follow-up to the multiple award-winning A Silent Hell, hardboiled detective John Blacksad finds himself on the road across 1950s America, cruising in a golden Cadillac Eldorado west from New Orleans, while taking a much-needed break from the deadly dramas that dog his feline tail--or so he thinks. Before long, Blacksad's hard luck catches up with him, landing him smack in the middle of another murder and in pursuit of a...
Author
Series
Chew volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tony Chu - the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from what he eats - has been kidnapped! He was ambushed, knocked out, brought to a remote location, and bound securely. His captor intends to feed Tony from a menu of his choosing, to find out what Tony can see, in order to learn from him. His daughter, Olive, has been kidnapped for the exact same reason. Two kidnappers, two captives, and two very different outcomes....
Author
Series
Hobtown mystery stories volume 1
Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Case of the Missing Men is the first part of an ongoing mystery thriller set in a strange and remote East Coast village called Hobtown. The story follows a gang of young teens who have made it their business to investigate each and every one of their town's bizarre occurrences as The Teen Detective Club (a registered afterschool program). Their small world of missing pets and shed-fires is turned upside down when real-life kid adventurer and globetrotter...
Author
Series
Richard Stark's Parker volume 4
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Parker is put to the test against crooked cops and sleazy gangsters after a heist goes south. He finds himself trapped in an amusement park closed for the winter and embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse...a game that slowly starts to favor the mouse.
Author
Series
Bad machinery volume 4
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Year two at Griswalds Grammar brings new challenges, socks, and a strange new classmate for Tackleford's young sleuths.
Author
Series
Chicagoland detective agency volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yes, Chicagoland is an odd place. But the word is out that Megan, Raf, and Raf's talking dog Bradley are the team to go to when weirder things than usual start happening. Their Chicagoland Detective Agency takes danger in hand (and paw) to find a mysteriously missing puppy and an even more mysterious pack of dogs that only shows up once a month.
Bradley's nose knows from the start that this is more than a simple case of stray pets
Author
Series
Banana Fox volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
The great detective Banana Fox is called back to duty to find a missing turtle. But the deeper he digs, the more he discovers, and it's worse than he thought! The Secret Sour Society is back, and they're mixing up a bunch of trouble. Can Banana Fox and his sidekick, Flashlight, put an end to the Secret Sour Society once and for all?
17) Weird detective
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The only man capable of fighting the terrors that plague New York City, Detective Sebastian Greene, may not be a man at all. Greene's partner, Detective Sana Fayez, is becoming suspicious of his actions but with a new, deadly threat loose on the streets, they'll need to work together if they want to solve the case"--
Author
Series
Resident alien volume 6
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Harry's learned a lot about himself and the possibility that other aliens have been stranded on Earth, too"--
"He needs to figure out what to do with Honey, the only resident in Patience, USA, who sees him in his true alien form, as well as deal with his feelings toward Asta, his best friend. Brad and Amanda's wedding day draws near, Dan is concerned about Harry's safety, and a sinister federal agent pretending to be a new Patience resident visits...
Author
Series
Kill m y mother volume 3
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eighty-nine-year-old Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale that dares "to try things that film noir could only dream of" (Chris Ware). In The Ghost Script, Feiffer plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts and Reds and pinkos and starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed "Cousin Joseph," running a back- channel clearinghouse for victims...
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