I hit a couple of stores with lots of paperbacks.
A.I. Bezzerides: THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (aka LONG HAUL) (1935).
I haven't read anything by Bezzerides, but he's often
mentioned on the list, and the I really like the Bogey/Raft
movie version of this.
Richard S. Prather: PATTERN FOR PANIC; DARLIING, IT'S DEATH;
DEAD HEAT; THE KUBLA KHAN CAPER; THE CHEIM MANUSCRIPT.
Filling in gaps in my Shell Scott collection. THE CHEIM
MANUSCRIPT opens with "They say time will tell, and on Mrs.
Gladys Jellicoe it had spilled everything. She was about
fifty years old and quite well preserved: she looked like a
mummy. Her eyes were the colour of coffee with the grounds
still in it, and her hair was the same uninteresting shade as
her eyes; she had a face to unwind cuckoo clocks and a shape
like an old girdle."
Vera Caspary: LAURA (1942).
Jonathan Craig: CASE OF THE NERVOUS NUDE. A 1959 Fawcett Gold
Medal. I've never read anything by Craig, but I'll try any
old Gold Medal. This is a Detective Peter Selby
mystery.
John D. MacDonald: THE ONLY GIRL IN THE GAME; ONE MORE
SUNDAY; THE EXECUTIONERS; NO DEADLY DRUG. THE EXECUTIONERS is
what CAPE FEAR was based on, but I've never read it. I was
surprised by NO DEADLY DRUG: I didn't know it was
non-fiction. It's "the riveting true story of the notorious
Coppolino murder trial." It looks like he beefed up court
testimony and transcripts. It's a very long book. I need a
bookcase just for my JDM books.
John Evans (aka Howard Browne): HALO FOR SATAN. This is a
1958 Bantam paperback edition of one of the Paul Pine
mysteries. It says Howard Browne has the copyright, but
otherwise his pseudonym is everywhere.
John Blumenthal: THE CASE OF THE HARDBOILED DICKS (1985). A
Mac Slade mystery. I've never seen this around, but it looked
like a fun parody.
Bill
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