If one of them can shoot like me... the odds are a damn sight better."In the course of his line of business, the man who calls himself Roy Martin has robbed a bank in Phoenix, killed three men, and caught a bullet in his arm. Safety--and one half of $178,000--awaits him on the other side of the country. All that separates "Martin" from his destination are two thousand treacherous miles and three lethal temptations: to trust the wrong friend, to love the right woman, and to start believing that a man like himself can ever be safe.The Name of the Game is Death combines a narrative as taut as a hangman's rope with chillingly authentic insights into the psychology of casual murder.

    In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of Hoke Moseley detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural south. First published in 1962 by Charles Willeford, later made into a Roger Corman film.

    The thriller that introduces Parker. “A brilliant invention”. Played by Lee Marvin in the John Boorman movie. “The funnies call it the syndicate. The goons and hustlers call it the Outfit. You call it the Organization. But I don’t care if you call yourselves the Red Cross, you owe me forty-five thousand dollars and you’ll pay me back whether you like it or not.”This novel was originally titled The Hunter, later retitled Point Blank because of the movie, later retitled Payback because of the other movie.

    Skeptics claim it is the invention, or the result, of over-heated imaginations. And in doing so they prove the worst horror of all - that the real roots of abysmal terror and monstrous evil lie in the human mind.This is the fiend in you...Contents:Introduction by Charles Beaumont Finger Prints by Richard Matheson Fool's Mate by Stanley Ellin Big, Wide, Wonderful World by Charles E. Fritch The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara by Whit Burnett A Punishment to Fit the Crimes by Richard M. Gordon The Hornet by George Clayton Johnson Perchance to Dream by Charles Beaumont The Thirteenth Step by Fritz Leiber The Conspiracy by Robert Lowry Room with a View by Esther Carlson The Candidate by Henry Slesar One of Those Days by William F. Nolan Lucy Comes to Stay by Robert Bloch The Women by Ray Bradbury Surprise! by Ronald Bradford Mute by Richard Matheson

    When you enter the forest of Drendon, and your girlfriend turns into a woodnymph, and her brother becomes a fawn, and the dreadful parrot-beaked, cannibalistic Kwistian birds come to feast, don't waste precious time asking what's going on--it's magic, you dope!

    Translated from French.A rough description, from my memory: A sparrow named Mirabeau tells a story about a boy who is friends with an older woman, a Madam Houronette, who sells her late husband's encyclopedias in the park and tells stories. He meets a lonely girl named Soledad, and they listen to Madam Houronette tell stories about her son-in-law who is a hippopotamus, and they and the sparrow decide to head out to his country of origin to find him. They have adventures along the way...Sadly out of print.

    This is the second collection of stories culled from that tome:DUSTY ZEBRA: Trader loved all the little zebras he received in return for his miraculous cleaning gadgets.CARBON COPY: Everybody was happy with the handsome new housing development until the alien practical joker perpetrated one joke too many.FOUNDING FATHER: Self-delusion is a helpful drug --- in small doses!IDIOT'S CRUSADE: Which turned out not to be so idiotic, after all.DEATH SCENE: Clairvoyance can prevent wars. Could it also deaden the excitement of living?GREEN THUMB: Which won't surprise people who have one and should be included in any gardening manual.

    As the architect-narrator comments, “You’ve been in that kind of house; everyone has. For no reason you can explain you feel a joy at just being in it.”

    Only they understood she was running, and like them, might one day be caught.

    Other partners, work, liquor and the casinos of beautiful Lake Tahoe.... "And he was certain, because he could feel it in the pit of his stomach, that they were going to make it. Not a million bucks. Leave that to the fiction writers. But a cool one hundred G's, maybe. That was the kind of money it took the average guy ten to twenty years of hard labor to earn. They could get it in hours." It was the perfect con. An inside job, carefully planned. Pick a target and roll the dice. What could go wrong? Jack and Binny are about to find out. SQUEEZE PLAY is a classic noir thriller by one of the hidden masters of the genre.

    

    The beautiful Mrs. Condon's husband left her cold and she wanted a man around the house day and night!"