Lily knew what she wanted, and that was a man who would take her away from the dirt road and one-room country shack she called home. Lily was different than the other swamp folks, different and smarter. She was looking not only to get out but for something, and it was clear that she'd do anything to get whatever that might be, including commit murder. It was impossible to avoid her, her sleepy eyes that made it seem that she'd just crawled out of a warm bed, her full lips and lush body. An insurance investigator is sent by his company from St. Louis to find out the truth about a hundred thousand dollar scam; he discovers the truth, all right, but Lily makes him concentrate on something altogether different.     Harry Whittington was the king of the paperback originals. He wrote mysteries, westerns, romance and adventure novels. Despite his prolific output, Whittington's work was always of the highest quality. Celebrated and perhaps appreciated most in France, Whittington was lionized by the Magazine Literaire, in Paris: "For the past twenty-five years," they wrote, "we in France have considered Harry Whittington one of the masters of the roman noir in the second generation-after Hammett, Chandler, Cain."      ***          "Whittington does some of the best sheer story-telling since the greatest days of the detective pulps."     -Anthony Boucher, New York Times          "Whittington's writing is crisp, with a good deal of emotional impact."     -Bill Pronzini

The Brass Monkey!Symbol of what evil was this leering, glittering little gibbon? What connection had it with the murder of Herb Baldwin? Why did it strike fear into ugly old Hattie Contona? Why was it hunted by the sadistic Lieut. Mosani?How did it figure into the violent death of pretty and luscious little Ona Kalani? How did it mean both life and death to the incomparable, the completely seductive Lanai Okazi, golden goddess of the flesh?Jim Patterson, a private eye at war with the world, found the brass monkey—and used his life as bait to trap its secret! But this was not the end, for beyond lay a secret within a secret—one more vicious, more vindictive than murder itself!

Mike Ballard #1 He was a tough, brutal cop — until he fell in love... Originally published in 1956 by Gold Medal, then reissued as Forgive Me, Killer by Black Lizard in 1987, Brute in Brass is a hardboiled novel about Mike Ballard, a crooked cop desperate to make up for previous sins, but unable to control his own desires.

He was a tall and slender man in his early thirties with a bitter hunger in his face. There was a strength about him that the tailored jacket couldn't conceal or soften, and a readiness about him that clashed with the expensive car and the hand-sawn luggage. Ex-convict Ric Durazo was a man on a mission – well chosen for the job of saving someone's life, even if it cost him his own. A Ticket to Hell is a fast-paced noir ride through the cheap motels and desert canyons of New Mexico.

Harry Nelson got Dan Henderson out of the pen for his own very special reasons. The price of Henderson's freedom was simple—he merely had to track down and find Nelson's voluptuous wife, Connice...Henderson finally found her in far-off Hawaii—but just as dead as they come...Then he discovered that he was the fall guy for her murder and that he had to return to Tampa and kill..But it was lovely Connice who had the last laugh, as always...

The noir classic by the author whom Joe R. Lansdale calls "the king of plot and pace." With a new introduction by Bill Crider, author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. Ex-cop Mitch Walker is on the run after being wrongfully accused of murder. So Walker hops a train and ends up in a small town in Kansas, where he signs up to work at a huge farm owned by Barton M. Cassel, the big man in the county. The farm looks like a good place to hide from Fred Palmer, his pursuer and former partner, and the local cops, but Walker soon finds himself caught between the jealous battle of his new employer, and Cassel's beautiful wife, Eve. And one way or the other, nobody leaves the farm.

From the moment Cousin Rosanne and her husband arrived from Alabama, Will Johnson was in for it. Outside, his orange crop was in danger, and now his troubles moved indoors as well.Death and jealousy stood behind Will's wife, the law was after Rosanne's husband, and that unwilling bride herself was a fiery young thing who thus far had resisted gentling. Yet, though Will's strong back already was heavily burdened, he dared to take on this one more chore—even if it sparked an emotional holocaust.