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1955

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Charles Willeford - 1955

He Holed Up With a Helpless LushProwling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up.

Harry just wants to help, but before long he and Helen are both adrift in a sea of alcohol - until Harry conceives the ultimate crime...

Trial Run / Whip Hand / Twice Shy

Dick Francis - 1955

Three book omnibus: Whip Hand (October 1979), Trial Run (October 1979), Twice Shy (October 1981).

Printed in Great Britan

The Killing

Lionel White - 1955

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a fool-proof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll.

The two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnny do the work, then she'll grab the swag for herself and her boyfriend.

A Bullet for Cinderella

John D. MacDonald - 1955

Her veneer was big city … but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell’s instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from.

I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.