If you are a bookstore or other bookseller

Please visit our page for booksellers for detailed information.

If you want to buy our books online

You can buy our books online at these websites: Amazon.com CodysBooks.com Independent Publishers Group (IPG) The Mysterious Bookshop Powells City of Books Murder One Green Apple Books Barnes & Noble.com

If you want to buy our books in a store

These retail stores do the best job of keeping our titles in stock: Cody's Books, Berkeley (both locations) Cody's Books, San Francisco Green Apple Books, San Francisco M Is for Mystery, San Mateo Murder One, London The Mysterious Bookshop, New York Mystery Loves Company, Baltimore The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale Powells City of Books, Portland San Francisco Mystery Bookstore, San Francisco Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Seattle You can also buy our books at these stores: Your local independent mystery bookstore Your local Borders Your local Barnes and Noble

If you want to order our books over the telephone

Your copies of our books are only a phone call away, thanks to these merchants: Independent Publishers Group (IPG), toll-free (800) 888-4741 or(312) 337-0747 M Is for Mystery, (650) 401-8077, or toll-free outside the Bay Area (888) 405-8077 Murder One, +44 (0) 207 539 8820 The Mysterious Bookshop, (800) 352-2840 toll-free Mystery Loves Company, toll-free (800) 538-0042 or (410) 276-6708 The Poisoned Pen, toll-free (888) 560-9919 or (480) 947-2974 Powell's City of Books, toll-free (866) 201-7601, or in the Portland, Oregon area, (503) 228-0540 San Francisco Mystery Bookstore, (415) 282-7444 Seattle Mystery Books, (206) 587-5737 Ziesing's Books, (530) 474-1580

If you are a book club member

Of our books, only Lost Stories by Dashiell Hammett has been selected by book clubs. It is available from both of these clubs: The Book-of-the-Month Club The Mystery Guild

If you want books for a library

Our titles are carried by most companies that sell to libraries in the United States and Canada, and by several library specialists in the rest of the world: Baker & Taylor Institutional Blackwell's Book Services Eastern Book Company Emery-Pratt Follett Library Resources Gazelle Book Services (Europe) Ingram Library Services Independent Publishers Group (IPG) Jay Books (New Zealand), (64-04) 586-0226 John Reed Book Distribution (Australia) Library Bound (Canada) Library Services Centre (Canada) Lindsay and Croft (U.K., France, and Spain) Midwest Library Service Partners Book Distributing, toll-free (800) 336-3137 or (517) 694-3205 S&B Books (Canada) United Library Services (Canada) YPB Library Services

If you are with an academic or educational institution

With its extensive resources, notes, index, and bibliography, Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade is a valuable text for courses on detective fiction, mystery fiction, American literary history, film noir, cinema history, and the censorship of literature and films. Lost Stories has been recommended for a course on Twentieth-Century American literature. Independent Publishers Group (IPG) and its subsidiary Paul and Company represent our titles for classroom use. Request a desk copy from IPG