Entrepreneur and author Charles Ardai has created a tiny time machine, and he’s selling it himself. “It’s a doorway into old New York that you can buy for $7.99,” Ardai says. He’s referring to his new ...

THE Mystery Writers of America – the prestigious organization of whodunnit novelists headed by Nelson DeMille – is being accused of murdering the chances of a prize-winning author to compete for an ...

Edgar Award-winning author Charles Ardai is founder of Hard Case Crime, a pulp-fiction publishing group that reprints classic crime stories and publishes new pulp. All Hard Case novels come out in ...

It would be hard to overstate the influence and impact of the late great novelist Donald Westlake, who wrote many great books under both the Westlake name as well as at Richard Stark, in addition to ...

Stephen King’s new novel, Joyland (review here), is set to release on June 4th, and we had a chance to chat with the book’s editor, Charles Ardai. Ardai, who is also a producer on the TV show “Haven,” ...

Another voice from the past now. A new novel from a great American writer who's been dead for more than 30 years. The writer is the master of noir, James M. Cain. He gave us the classic books behind ...

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