Two classic noir thrillers originally published as paperback originals in 1960 and 1957. "He had few peers among noir writers of the 50s and 60s; he has few peers today." –Bill Pronzini
SOME MEN AND SOME MERCHANDISE ARE JUST TOO HOT TO HANDLE? All Tony Catell knew when he broke into the university science lab was that they had a gold ingot on the premises for some sort of experiment.
The Silent Wall is a brooding story of Mafia revenge set in a small Sicilian village, where a former soldier confronts the sins of the past. The Return of Marvin Palaver, on the other hand, is a sly t
Peter Rabe created the archetypical gangster in Daniel Port and wrote about him in six different thrillers. These first three books introduce us to Port and his criminal world. Here is Port the master
The final three novels in the Dan Port series, Rabe's fictional study of the use and abuse of power. Port used to be second-in-command to an East Coast gangster—now he's a free agent, alone and availa
Three spy novels featuring lawyer Manny deWitt, originally published in paperback by Gold Medal Books. The action is light-hearted and the humor a bit twisted in these slight spoofs of the spy genre,
Two gangland crime novels from an author of whom Bill Pronzini said "had few peers among noir writers of the 50s and 60s; he has few peers today." Or as Ed Gorman phrased it in Mystery Scene
Anatomy of a Killer (1960) is the story of a hitman who learns, too late, what it is to be human. A Shroud for Jesso (1955) is the story of a crime boss who is hijacked on a steamer to Europe, where h
