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Cassidy's Girl by David Goodis Publisher Comments This is one of David Goodis's most extraordinary efforts, a novel about a disgraced airline pilot who has sunk to the lower depths of existence. Disaster trails the forlorn Cassidy like a hellhound. His self-destructive pattern results not only in self... (read more) Your price: $2.49 Used - Mass Market 
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Black Friday by David Goodis Publisher Comments Hart wasn't built for this kind of life, the penny-ante stick-up jobs, the strongarm mug stuff. Hart was an artist, the real thing. At least he was once. Now he was a wreck, a bum, a tramp nobody cared about. He'd owned a yacht, traveled the globe, had a... (read more) Your price: $2.24 Used - Mass Market
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Far Cry by Frederic Brown Publisher Comments George Weaver rented a house no one else wanted because the last tenant had been murdered. George didn't care about that at first, but then he got involved, more involved than he wanted to be. He saw the sudden terror in Jenny's eyes, saw her back away... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Tough Luck L. A. by Murray Sinclair Publisher Comments Ben Crandel, a half-successful porno novelist, has come to Los angeles to make his mark in the movie business. In short order, his young friend Vicky, a former prostitute, is beaten, then murdered in her apartment, after refusing to star in a sex film... (read more) Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford Publisher Comments Charles Willeford, the best-selling author of Miami Blues and New Hope for the Dead, is a specialist in creating human monsters. In The Burnt Orange Heresy he invented James Figueras, the psychotic prototype later to be revealed in Miami Blues as Junior... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Mass Market
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Goodbye L.A. by Murray Sinclair Publisher Comments Ben Crandel is back! Though in some ways he's still a "hothead with a heart of gold and brass" (Chicago Tribune), these days the protagonist of Tough Luck L.A. and Only in L.A. is a rather smug fellow who chooses not to remember that he used to write... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Perversity by Francis Carco Publisher Comments A prostitute, her pimp and her brother are locked in an unholy triangle of terror in Perversity, Francis Carco's stunning and sordid story set in the slums of Paris. Translated by Jean Rhys, called by the critic A. Alvarez "the best English novelist... (read more) Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction by Ed Gorman Publisher Comments What you are about to read is a tribute to all of the writers who taught a whole generation of crime fiction authors not only the tricks of the trade, but a few tricks about living as well. Here gathered together for the first ime is a collection of... (read more) Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cropper's Cabin by Jim Thompson Publisher Comments Tommy was just a country boy but he thought he knew the difference between right and wrong — it was tough to be sure about these things, though, when either Marty or Donna were around. If it hadn't been for them, well, maybe nobody would have gotten... (read more) Your price: $7.50 Used - Mass Market
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Masques by Bill Pronzini Publisher Comments The city of New Orleans has gone mad, and Steve Giroux has gone mad with it. Or has he? Fleeing one woman, Giroux found himself hooked up with another during Mardi Gras. With Jelly Roll Morton's "Cannonball Blues" pounding in the background, and... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Root of His Evil by James M. Cain Publisher Comments James M. Cain, author of the classic crime novels The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Serenade, here presents Carrie Selden and Grant Harris as the featured players. The Root of His Evil is a novel about a modern Cinderella much in the... (read more) Your price: $1.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Getaway by Jim Thompson Publisher Comments The bank robbery was child's play. The escape was not. They grappled with ghosts from the past, murderous accomplices and the police. Their destination was Hell. Filmed by Sam Peckinpah in 1972 starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Mass Market
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Dead Meet by Roger Lichtenberg Simon Publisher Comments Dead Meet is a gripping, noir portrait of a sick young man, an heir to a major American fortune who has gone off the deep end. His girlfriend is lying dead on the bed in his tomb of a New York City apartment when we enter his sordid life. She'd been... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Ill Wind by W. L. Heath Publisher Comments Until the day Charley Mott shot himself, Morgan was as placid a town as you could find. Tough, tender, amusing...Ill Wind uncovers and lays bare some nasty, necessary truths not only about Charley Mott, but all of us. A passionate and lyrical novel.... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Death Puppet by Jim Nisbet Publisher Comments Smart, bored, attractive and single, Mattie Brooke is a not quite over-the-hill waitress in the tiny town of Dip, Washington. She's lived all but one year of her life in Dip, and not much of what goes on there escapes her eye. But then, not much of what... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Port Tropique by Barry Gifford Publisher Comments Barry Gifford explores a strange new world in this bizarre adventure novel of smuggling and revolution set in a ghostly Central American country.... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Sinful Woman by James M. Cain Publisher Comments James M. Cain, author of the classic crime novels The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce, knows what makes people tick! In Sinful Woman, Sheriff Parker Lucas and glitzy screen star Sylvia Shoreham spark it up in Reno under... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Coffin & Co. by Njami Simon Publisher Comments The Dew Drop Inn, at the corner of 129th Street and Lennox Avenue, in Harlem, New York City, is where our story begins. In this brilliant invention by the young black French writer Njami Simon, two obscure black Harlem detectives, W. Jones Dubois and Ed... (read more) Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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