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Mystery & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs

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Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler for fiction

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Mark Coggins’ work has been nominated for the Shamus and the Barry crime fiction awards and selected for best of the year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and Amazon.com, among others. His novels Runoff and The Big Wake-Up won the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) respectively, both in the crime fiction category.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 401 ratings · 104 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Immortal Game (August Riordan, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Black Bishop 3.63 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Candy from Strangers (August Riordan, #3) 3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vulture Capital: Fear and Funding in the Silicon Valley (August Riordan, #2) 3.54 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Runoff (August Riordan, #4) 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Wake-Up (August Riordan, #5) 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Beat Scroll 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters: True Stories of Adolescence, Misguided Romance and Failed Relationships 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Hard Feelings 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geisha Confidential 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I worked with Poltroon Press to publish a special edition of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. Illustrated with scene-setting B&W photographs of Falcon locations from San Francisco, it includes a new introduction by Randal S. Brandt—Curator of the California Detective Fiction Collection at the Bancroft Library—a “mapback” pinpointing crime scenes in downtown San Francisco and a coda of two li

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Mark Coggins liked Tom Godfrey's review of Geisha Confidential: "This is the first book by Mr. Coggins that I have read, so I have no basis of comparison with his other works, but this one is highly unusual and well worth reading. The detective is middle-aged and from California, so we're off to a good start, but " Read more of this review »
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