–– You're Gonna Have Trouble –– Volume #6 –– in the Chance "Cash" Register Working Stiff Series . . . I fixed it so I'd get fired. Don't mean it didn't hurt any less. The crazy schedule they had me on...

Nobody rides for free.Not even a talented opera singer . . .My initial encounter with the singing diva had been on a Hollywood Blvd bus. I was sitting in the middle somewhere on my way to another nothing...

Last Tango in the Old PuebloSome insane lunacy is taking place at the New Pueblo Funeral Home & Chapel. Drifter Ray Zook is about to regret he ever set foot in Tucson, let alone allow himself to get...

Blue-Collar Hell Hole It's the late 1990s. Tucson, AZ. Before POD, before kindle. For Chance "Cash" Register the struggle to scrape together enough cash to get his beloved short story anthology self-pubbed...

                         "Hell is other people."                           ––Jean-Paul Sartre                               Adult star Sheba Darling, the Marilyn look-alike, addicted to coke, pills and...

"Great book. Dark–yes. Grotesque–certainly. Sexually explicit–without a doubt. And the writing is excellent. Character & dialogue, is as real as it gets. A terrifying, non-putdownable horror." –Jeff...

LIKE A BLAST FROM A DOUBLE-    BARRELED SHOTGUN,TWO HARD NOIR LA NOVELS           IN ONE BLOOD–STAINED VOLUME:                   THROWBACK & BACKLASH          Love, Lust & Murder SeriesMénage...

Raw and loony, filthy and funny gutbucket belches from Kirk Alex, author of the acclaimed and controversial LUSTMORD: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher.This collection includes tales such as the sexually graphic...

Some very strange things are taking place at the New Pueblo Funeral Home…War vet Ray Zook, a PTSD afflicted former grunt, is about to regret that he ever set foot in Tucson, Arizona. All he wants is to...

Who knew the minister next door was also a sadistic predator? Cecil Biggs is not your average man of the cloth. By day, he appears to be a hard working preacher, but once night descends upon the quiet...

Urban. Crime. LA is where it happens. Don't go out at night. You might run into him.

A PI CHOO-CHOO BUSCHITSKI CRIME NOIR MISADVENTURE ––He's not Marlow, he's not Mike Hammer or Sam Spade. His name is Buschitski and he gets it done any way he can.BoneBook DescriptionI can’t stand being...

 Up the creek  . . . Volume 5 in the Chance "Cash" Register blue-collar series.He walked away from the shipping clerk job at the smut warehouse to rescue what remained of his sanity. Only now he's up...

Fifty Shades of Tinsel, Vol. #3 - Backstory: MarcellaBook Description:**THEY CALL HIM TUBESTEAK**Jimmy Riff, a well-endowed preacher's son whose life is adrift, stopped off in Hollywood on his way to...

Another troubled lady that LA private dick Choo-Choo Buschitski should stay clear of––but won't, to his detriment.

FACT: It's LA. FACT: Wherever Choo-Choo goes, trouble follows. FACT: It's noir––boudoir noir, that is. For the sex-obsessed & the morally conflicted.Certainly not for prudes, or the easily offended. **EXCERPT**He...

Fifty Shades of Tinsel, Vol. #5 - The WidowBook Description: **THEY CALL HIM TUBESTEAK** Jimmy Riff, a well-endowed preacher's son whose life is adrift, stopped off in Hollywood on his way to Oregon in...

His name is not Rambo, but he's just as pi**ed. Another war vet back home from the war. Looking for a paying gig, a job. Only things don't go so well. Watch out.It's the City of Angels––once again. The...

 PI Choo-Choo Buschitski better keep his behind covered...because one of his former clients, a hot-tempered hottie, is out for some sweet payback.

Hubba-Hubba Holiday: A Doc Holiday Private Investigator Mystery (Book 2)Obsession, fame, murder.Hollywood could destroy them all. It's beating down with rain as Private Investigator Edgar "Doc" Holiday...

Hollow-Point Holiday: A Doc Holiday Private Investigator Mystery (Book 3)Money talks.But who will pay the price? The sky is dark and heavy when Private Investigator Edgar "Doc" Holiday discovers the body...

Who knew the minister next doorwas also a sadistic predator? Cecil Omar Biggs is not your average man of the cloth. By day, he appears to be a hardworking preacher, but once night descends upon the quiet...

Hard Noir Holiday: A Doc Holiday Private Investigator Mystery (Book 4) Welcome to rattlesnake country.Where a certain desert rat type is far deadlierthan a diamondback. When L.A. Private Investigator...

Ballad of the Red Bag Man by Kirk Alex Blue collar free verse without the fakery & pretentious bullsh*t. Won't find any of that bogus/tough-to-discern rhyming crap here that way too often is squeezed...

                                             Love is the Coldest Whore of All                                                        by Kirk Alex                                  Blue collar free verse...

Enter the sleazy underbelly of Hollywood…Outcast, Jimmy Riff goes to Hollywood in search of an old girlfriend, but instead of locating his long lost love, he finds himself being hired out as a gigolo...

Ziggy Popper at LargeIt’s a hot afternoon in East Hollywood. Ziggy Popper is fresh out of the joint, sitting in a dive bar nursing a beer and minding his own damn business, when a scrawny loser walks...

Birdman of Tucson Calder, reclusive by nature, gives his color tv set away (to break free of his addiction to it). In an effort to fill the void in his humble digs he decides to pick up a parrot at the...

Life is a cakewalk for some.For many others it's anything but. As you may (or may not know), I have always appreciated blue-collar tales by those who have spent time in the trenches, whether it's Tom...

                 When Fade Out . . .                            Means You're Dead! Neophyte stunt man Lem Buck dies performing a dangerous fall from a San Fernando Valley rooftop that may or may not have...