Best of
Noir

1960

The End of the Night


John D. MacDonald - 1960
    A journey into a world of fear and violence carried to their logical extreme—murder.

The Woman Chaser


Charles Willeford - 1960
    One day Richard decides to make an ambitious film, which turns into a fiasco. Enraged, he exacts revenge on all who have crossed him.

Angel's Flight


Lou Cameron - 1960
    When he decided at an early age to become a louse, he didn't settle for being an ordinary one. He had a genius for it.And he used that genius all the way up the long dirty climb from two-bit drummer in a mixed band to Top Cat of America's pop music empire — and God help any man — or woman — who got in his way.ANGEL'S FLIGHT is a rich, authentic, inside story of what it takes to make it big in the world of juke boxes, the supper clubs and the rock-and-roll TV bandstands.

Just Another Sucker


James Hadley Chase - 1960
    But when that telephone call is part of a fake kidnap plan to extract five hundred thousand dollars from one of the richest men in the world, only a sucker would gamble on the deal paying off in his favour. Harry Barber is a sucker. After three and a half years in jail for a crime he didn't commit, with no job and no money, he is the perfect target of a brilliant plan to frame him for the brutal murder of a young girl.

Nude on Thin Ice


Gil Brewer - 1960
    Both of them just waiting for me.Only one thing stood in the way.A hot-eyed little tramp with a mind like ice and a body that could melt iron. She was out of this world, this hopped-up nymphet . . . and that's where she almost put me.Because this little girl had it all mapped out. She knew which side of the bed was buttered, and that the quickest way to the hidden loot was me . . .And murder!

The Three-way Split


Gil Brewer - 1960