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Lethal Injection
by Jim Nisbet  Publisher Comments Franklin Royce is an alcoholic prison doctor charged with the odious administration of overseeing the difficult and violent capital punishment of a young black male who seems curiously indifferent to his grisly fate. Dr. Royce becomes convinced that his...
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Black Mass of Brother Springer
by Charles Willeford Publisher Comments He was white. She was beautiful — and bad! Elmer Gantry had nothing on the Right Reverend Deuteronomy Springer, resident of the Anderson Hotel in Harlem, minister of the Church of God's Flock, late of Jox, Florida. Or was he really William Johnson...
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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...
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Never Live Twice
by Dan J. Marlowe Publisher Comments The "accident" had been planned with great care. No witnesses. Complete darkness. And, for good measure, they made it look as if Louisa herself had almost been killed along with her husband. Louisa and Kel had worked a long time to make this accident...
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Strongarm
by Dan J. Marlowe Publisher Comments Meet Pete Karma, the man who broke jail and wound up neck-deep in a gangland bloodbath. Pete had a lot of hate stored up inside. He hadn't committed the murder he'd been sent up for, and it didn't take him long to figure out who'd framed him and how...
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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...
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Truth of the Matter
by John Lutz Publisher Comments Lou Roebuck's trouble began with a little lie, that's all it was, but it had made him a hunted man. The lie led to his being fired from his job, then came the final fight with his wife, his wild impulse to run down that slob Ingrahm when he stepped out...
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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...
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Jealous 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, pairs Jane Delevan and Ed Horner as new lovers in this sizzling divorce novel set in Reno. Cain's famous insurance investigator, Keyes,...
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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...
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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...
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Carny Kill
by Robert Edmond Alter Publisher Comments That's a knife in his chest, just like the kind my ex-wife used to use in her kinfe-throwing act. But that was a long time ago. Before she married the owner of this carny...and there's the owner now. He's the dead man....
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Running of Beasts
by Bill Pronzini and Barry Malzberg Publisher Comments The esteemed critic Francis M. Nevins, Jr., has written: "The Running of Beasts may well be the finest suspense book since the death of Cornell Woolrich, a spine-freezer about schizoid Ripper whose everday identity is totally unaware of the night persona...
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Seven Slayers
by Paul Cain Publisher Comments The toughest of the tough-guy writers! Favorably compared to Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain (whom certain critics and readers thought to be the real author), Paul Cain caused a sensation by following up his only novel, Fast One with...
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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...
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Violent Saturday
by W. L. Heath Publisher Comments A noir classic filmed by 20th Century Fox in 1955 starring Victor Mature, Sylvia Sydney, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. When three strangers got off the train that hot summer afternoon, the town of Morgan looked to them like any sleepy little town...
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Shoot the Piano Player
by David Goodis Publisher Comments Eddie had been a big shot once, a concert pianist at the top of his profession, able to fill Carnegie Hall whenever he chose to perform. His brothers were in a different business, however, they were thieves, killers. Until now he had been able to avoid...
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Detour
by Helen Nielsen Publisher Comments It was hot work, trudging across the desert to the Mexican border. Danny was thankful when Doc Gaynor pulled up and gave him a lift. But not for long — not after they stopped for gas and he found the old doc bending over the hood, dead. Tough...
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Damned Don't Die
by Jim Nisbet Publisher Comments Ex-cop turned private eye, not much surprised Martin Windrow anymore. But this case proved to be in a class by itself, peeling back the gentle surface of suburbia to reveal a murky world where sex and violence merged into murder most bizarre....
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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...
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