Sinners and Shrouds

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A brutal murder, a perfect frame-up!

From the back:

Reporter Sam Clay had awakened in a strange room with a hangover and a blonde. The hangover was ugly and the blonde was dead!
After a fast check Sam realized that he was the fall guy in a first-class frame-up. Then he heard the maid coming into the apartment. So he picked up a half-filled bottle of brandy and slipped into the closet.
Sam didn’t make a practice of knocking women unconscious with bottles. But this was an emergency. When the maid turned her back… bang! He let her have it.
As she sank to the floor with a moan, Sam wondered just how long he could stay one jump ahead of the cops!

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The Twenty-Year Death (Hardback)

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She was beautiful. He was damned.

1931—The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man’s beautiful daughter—and to her hot-tempered American husband.

1941—A hardboiled private eye hired to keep a movie studio’s leading lady happy uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet.

1951—A desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on his trail…

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.

Rose McGowan posed for the cover painting

via Hard Case Crime