A Brits top crime writers (manley American)

The Monkey's Raincoat

By Robert Crais

First published 1987. Elvis Cole mystery. Elvis is on the case when a client's estranged husband kidnaps their son.

Dashiell Hammett: Complete Novels (LOA #110)

By Dashiell Hammett

Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.

Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.