Fast One

Продажные судьи, насквозь прогнившая полицейская система, свирепые и беспринципные мерзавцы, избравшие порок своим ремеслом… Только герой, обладающий высшими достоинствами, может одолеть злодеев такого масштаба! Смертельный поединок со злом продолжается…

Murder. Multiplied by Seven... equals supercharged action and breath-taking suspense in this carnivol of crime from the blood-dipped pen of Paul Cain, creator of close-lipped men whose rods did all their talking, and sultry women whose eyes were full of promises.

A woman’s lips, a red-hot ruby necklace, and danger unlimited give us a scarlet motif for PIGEON BLOOD In PARLOR TRICK, there is conjured up a master slaying to prove to you that the knife is quicker than the eye, while a swarm of ruthless killers who settle their arguments with dynamite furnish the core for the blood-chilling tale, PINEAPPLE. These are but a few of the action-packed stories you will find between these covers.

Paul Cain is a connoisseur of crime who writes in the best homicidal tradition of Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler. This is one collection of spine-tingling murder yarns that you won’t read with your back to the door.

Fifteen stories and one novel — hard-boiled classics by an undisputed master.

Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain’s stories are classics of his genre. The protagonists of ambiguous morality who populate Cain’s work are portrayed with a cinematic flair for the grim hardness of their world. Cain’s only novel, was originally serialized in in the 1930s. It introduces us to Gerry Kells, a hard-nosed criminal who still holds fast to his humanity in a Los Angeles that’s crooked to the core.

This collection presents Cain’s classic crime writing to a contemporary audience.