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Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator #.5, 2.5, 5.1, 5.5 & 5.75 (Film N
Neon Noir: A Delilah Street Paranormal Investigator Anthology
“Fabulous!”—SHERRILYN KENYON, NYT bestselling author of the Dark Hunter series on Dancing with Werewolves.For the first time! All six Delilah Street urban fantasy stories and novellas in one collection, including the never-before published “Film Noir” with classic film star Cary Grant. Cover and interior design and illustrations by the author. 50,000 words.Prowl post-monster apocalypse Las Vegas from Delilah’s retro office, courtesy of Sam Spade...to the Strip’s Inferno Hotel Bar, where Nick and Nora Charles and Asta hang out, thanks to the lucrative magic of Cinema Simulacrums. Meet the Invisible Man in “Snow Job”, the Lon Chaney & Son roster of classic film roles in “Monster Mash”, and feline PI Midnight Louie in “Butterfly Kiss”. “Rollicking paranormal adventures.”—KEVIN J. ANDERSON, bestselling author of the Dan Shamble, Zombie PI mysteries
205 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 12, 2014
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About the author
Carole Nelson Douglas
168 books566 followersCarole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty-four award-winning novels in contemporary and historical mystery/suspense and romance, high and urban fantasy and science fiction genres. She is best known for two popular mystery series, the Irene Adler Sherlockian historical suspense series (she was the first woman to spin-off a series from the Holmes stories) and the multi-award-winning alphabetically titled Midnight Louie contemporary mystery series. From Cat in an Alphabet Soup #1 to Cat in an Alphabet Endgame #28.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
Delilah Street, PI (Paranormal Investigator), headlines Carole's noir Urban Fantasy series: Dancing With Werewolves, Brimstone Kiss, Vampire Sunrise, Silver Zombie, and Virtual Virgin. Now Delilah has moved from her paranormal Vegas to Midnight Louie, feline PI's "Slightly surreal" Vegas to solve crimes in the first book of the new Cafe Noir series, Absinthe Without Leave. Next in 2020, Brandi Alexander on the Rocks.
Once Upon a Midnight Noir is out in eBook and trade paperback versions. This author-designed and illustrated collection of three mystery stories with a paranormal twist and a touch of romance features two award-winning stories featuring Midnight Louie, feline PI and Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator in a supernatural-run Las Vegas. A third story completes the last unfinished story fragment of Edgar Allan Poe, as a Midnight Louie Past Life adventure set in 1790 Norland on a isolated island lighthouse. Louie is a soldier of fortune, a la Puss in Boots.
Next out are Midnight Louie's Cat in an Alphabet Endgame in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook Aug. 23, 2016.
All the Irene Adler novels, the first to feature a woman from the Sherlock Holmes Canon as a crime solver, are now available in eBook.
Carole was a college theater and English literature major. She was accepted for grad school in Theater at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University, and could have worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine (a la The Devil Wears Prada) but wanted a job closer to home. She worked as a newspaper reporter and then editor in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. During her time there, she discovered a long, expensive classified advertisement offering a black cat named Midnight Louey to the "right" home for one dollar and wrote a feature story on the plucky survival artist, putting it into the cat's point of view. The cat found a country home, but its name was revived for her feline PI mystery series many years later. Some of the Midnight Louie series entries include the dedication "For the real and original Midnight Louie. Nine lives were not enough." Midnight Louie has now had 32 novelistic lives and features in several short stories as well.
Hollywood and Broadway director, playwright, screenwriter and novelist Garson Kanin took Carole's first novel to his publisher on the basis of an interview/article she'd done with him five years earlier. "My friend Phil Silvers," he wrote, "would say he'd never won an interview yet, but he had never had the luck of you."
Carole is a "literary chameleon" who's had novels published in many genres, and often mixes such genre elements as mystery and suspense, fantasy and science fiction, romance with mainstream issues, especially the roles of women.
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May 9, 2018
This book might be for you. It was most assuredly not for me. The world was OK, but three things kept me from enjoying it:
- The reveals or answers to the cases seemed to come out of left field (compare with Sanderson where a reveal or twist makes you realize all the hints that were dropped all along)
- The prose was mostly fine, but then strange turns of phrase would leave me wondering "what's happening here?"
- The collection of stories in this anthology was weird because often reference was made to events that didn't happen in any of stories you'd read. So they'd be talking about something key that was affecting the way the characters were relating to each other and you felt as if you'd fallen asleep during the movie.
- The reveals or answers to the cases seemed to come out of left field (compare with Sanderson where a reveal or twist makes you realize all the hints that were dropped all along)
- The prose was mostly fine, but then strange turns of phrase would leave me wondering "what's happening here?"
- The collection of stories in this anthology was weird because often reference was made to events that didn't happen in any of stories you'd read. So they'd be talking about something key that was affecting the way the characters were relating to each other and you felt as if you'd fallen asleep during the movie.
March 8, 2025
Seemed competently written enough, and fans of urban fantasy/romance might enjoy them, but didn't bring anything new or interesting to the table and so I lost interest and abandoned it after one or two stories.
October 28, 2014
Not knowing the particulars of manyof the films referenced in this collection definitely limited my enjoyment.
November 11, 2014
Very entertaining. I love the references to old movies in these books
March 6, 2015
Good Mix
I love Delilah Street. I want more. I hope there will be another full book soon. This mix of stories were good. An interesting group to get to know characters a bit more.
I love Delilah Street. I want more. I hope there will be another full book soon. This mix of stories were good. An interesting group to get to know characters a bit more.
March 18, 2016
I had a hard time following these short stories. Probably partly due to not being a classic film buff but also because the writing style jumped around. Instead of feeling fast paced it felt choppy.
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