This best-selling novel, first published in 1953 to wide acclaim by author Grubb, (who like Powers lived in Clarksburg, West Virginia), served as the basis for Charles Laughton's noir classic . Renamed "Harry Powell," the lead character in this book, with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his fingers, is remembered as one of the creepiest men in book and cinema history.

    The one book Black Lizard never published, it's the dream-like tale of a man after a jailbreak, who meets up with the woman of his dreams... and his nightmares. Phenomenal work of the period, ranking with the best efforts of Thompson, Woolrich, Goodis et al.

    Merciless in its suspense, flawless in its grasp of the ways in which ordinary people hurtle over the edge, The Hot Spot is a superb example of fifties roman noir.

    MacDonald, the mastermind behind Cape Fear and the Travis McGee novels. On the coast of Florida, a working stiff is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss—and must outwit one of MacDonald’s signature villains to save his life.Introduction by Dean KoontzA college graduate and amateur fisherman, Andy McClintock is stuck toiling in the office of a construction company. But when Andy tries to quit, his boss offers him a promotion and a raise—and then promptly kills himself with a harpoon gun. At least, that’s what it looks like, until the police rule it homicide—with the murder weapon belonging to Andy.The harpoon gun had been stolen out of Andy’s garage, and the boss’s wife makes the outrageous claim that she and Andy were having an affair. He’s been set up. To clear his name, he’ll have to find the real killer. But Andy soon discovers that he’s up against more than a two-bit thief—he’s been targeted by absolute evil, a monster with no compassion for his fellow man.Praise for John D. MacDonald and Dead Low Tide“John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King“The writing is marked by sharp observation, vivid dialogue, and a sense of sweet warm horror.” —The New York Times “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt VonnegutFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

    With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history. This powerhouse collection includes three of the master's long-out-of-print greatest novels-together for the first time in one explosive volume:The Big KillOne Lonely NightKiss Me, DeadlyIncludes a special introduction by Shamus and Edgar Award-winner Lawrence Block

    . . It was only cheap glass, a fraud, a come-on for the suckers who paid Doc Magus to gaze into its depths and tell them tomorrow would be better. And Doc--a decent man, a smart man--pitied them. Yet tonight, even Doc had to believe the Madball. There was nothing left to lead him to the money--enough money to spring him free of the raucous, sordid world of the pitchmen and the pickled punks, the cotton candy and the kewpie dolls--and the belly dancers who needed him for all-night alibis.Doc was shrewd, but not quite shrewd enough. Someone else knew about the $42,000--a specialist in death, who was only yards away. . .MADBALL is a novel of one traveling show, and of the lives of its carneys, who live to close to the edge of frenzy.

    His family happens to be a gang of burglars. Now Nat has met a woman so hypnotically seductive that he will leave his partners and his trade to possess her. But you don't get away from family that easily.The Burglar has the hallmarks that made David Goodis one of the great practitioners of the hard-boiled crime novel: a haunting identification with life's losers, and a hero who finds out who he is only by betraying everything he believes in.

    Was Romaine Heilger another captive of handsome Leonard Vole's magnetism - his plaything? Was this young woman playing a game of deceit that would send her lover to the gallows for a crime?The accused in the prisoner's box, the judge, jury, and packed courtroom waited as Romaine mounted the stand to deliver the testimony that has made this the masterpiece of suspense and shock.

    Includes new introductions by Ed Gorman and Bill Crider

    The novel was recently re-released in French by the distinguished house of Gallimard. It is the tale of a cynical detective-story writer who is personally drawn into the world of some of the characters he writes about. His life turns upside down and suddenly he finds himself hunted as one of the "madmen" he had superficially described so often in his stories. The novel, because of it's exploration of violent crime and capital punishment, has been used in university criminology courses throughout the United States.

    C9” (Nick Noble)Rex Stout “Fer-De-Lance” (Part 3 of 5)(Nero Wolfe)William Lindsay Gresham “A Heart Condition” art by Tom O’SullivanBruno Fischer “No Escape!” art by Tom O’SullivanCraig Rice “The Dead Mr. Duck” (John J. Malone)Leonard S. Grey “What’s Your Verdict? No. 2”