It recounts a sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat in World War II.

    Along the way, she met Curt Fletcher, an arrogant and passionate trailblazer who vowed that no other man would possess her. And Sunset Lee, a gentle mountain man whose kindness would drastically change her outlook on life. As the trio faced hunger, poverty, and death, their battle for survival was not the only war they waged, for the two pioneers wanted Kitty - at any cost!

    From the moment he finds in his files a photograph marked "Krassy Almauniski, winner of the Stockyard News beauty contest", he’s obsessed and ends up following an old trail that leads to nothing but trouble.

    Men and women didn't make love, they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. They rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more.Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing history—an innovative, no-holds-barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend, and Spillane, one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost their power to sucker punch the reader.Find out for yourself in this first-time ever omnibus featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery…

    Ellson seems deliberately to have avoided this method. He takes the whole shocking and brutal story and flings it down as a challenge. There can be no argument, at any rate, as to whom it may concern. It concerns us all."-'The Christian Science Monitor

    His Uncle Horace is always there to help bail him and his family out of trouble. Herbert usually does things to excess, with his family egging him on, since his mother told him that discouraging children is a bad idea!

    Collection of non-fiction crime stories from The New Yorker magazine.

    

    Paperback abridgment of Somebody on the Phone (1950).Contains:-Johnny on the Spot-Somebody on the Phone-Momentum-Boy with Body-Death Sits in the Dentist's Chair-The Room with Something Wrong(Omitted are "Collared" and "The Night I Died" from Somebody on the Phone.)A MAN is struck with terror because his sister won't answer the telephone....A healthy patient keels over and dies in the dentist's chair....Another man sits alone in a cafeteria at 3:45 A.M., brooding over the probability that his wife will be a widow before she is 19....Six new stories featuring violence, superb detection and fresh angles by William Irish, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for "sustained excellence" in mystery writing.

    It is a teeming Odyssey of Oddities - a veritable encyclopedia of completely new and fascinating incredibilities. And every statement can be proved!