Four different writers explore the darker aspects of crime fiction in THE NOIR NOVEL MEGAPACK™:
HUNTER AT LARGE, by Thomas B. Dewey ... Mickey requested a year's leave of absence from his job on the police force. What else could he do? He'd just spent five months in the hospital because he'd been the only witness to a brutal murder...and the victim was his own wife!
NEVER BET YOUR LIFE, by... [click here for more]
PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE COP...
"Call me Mac... I'm just a guy. I go around and get in jams and then try to figure a way out of them. I don't make very much money and most people insult me one way or another... I'm a fairly good shot with small arms, show-thiinking but thorough, and very dirty in a clinch."
Mac gets into a jam this time even when he turns a job down. And all because of a... [click here for more]
"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini
In his second adventure, Mac is hired to tail a mother and her two kids on the train from Chicago to Los Angeles. All is going well until he is thrown off of the train -- while it's moving at high speed!
"Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He... [click here for more]
"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini
The naked lady was very beautiful and very dead. The police found that she had circled Mac's name in her phone book -- yet Mac couldn't remember her! What's a poor investigator to do -- but investigate?
"A solidly satisfactory story -- fast, believable, well-characterized, a nice balance... [click here for more]
Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
The Boston Herald called the first book “well paced and lively,” and The Saturday Review called it, “lively, lurid, and outspoken.”... [click here for more]
They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it.
He was a wanted man -- she was a woman who thought she's found her man.
It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start...for crime always has a cost, and a life on the run is no life at all -- unless you're willing to risk everything!
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So unmoving was the girl sitting on the wet rocks that, at first, she seemed a permanent feature of the rugged seascape. She was wearing an expensive evening dress and high-heel slippers. She seemed to be in a deep trance, her gaze fixed on the sea, motionless except for the tossing of her delicate blond hair in the morning breeze. And as his steps brought him closer, he thought he had never seen anything... [click here for more]