Fletcher Flora

Dan J. Marlowe

Charles Runyon

Collects three crime novels originally published by Gold Medal Books. The vengeance man: After Jim Wilson murders his wife and her lover in a fleabag motel, he gets off on a technicality and launches a campaign of terror against the small town he believes betrayed him. Park Avenue tramp: During one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo's and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player. But Charity's husband has had enough of her cheating ways. The prettiest girl I ever killed: Accidents happen, but the town of Sherman seems to have more than its fair share of the fatal kind. Someone falls into a well, another drowns, another is killed by an exploding stove. Curt Friedland comes back to town to clear his brother of murder, convinced there is more to all these deaths than mere coincidence.

A Trio of Gold Medals

The Vengeance Man

Never Live Twice

The Name of the Game is Death

Stephen King called Marlowe “the hardest of the hard-boiled,” and these two novels are his masterpieces. Here are the two books that introduce Earl Drake, a hardened thief on a mission of vengeance. He's been shot, burned and put away in an asylum—but they can't keep him there. Drake is a force to be reckoned with. Barry Gifford said it best: “Nobody wrote tougher prose than Dan J. Marlowe. Nobody.”

The Name of the Game Is Death / One Endless Hour

Roy Martin, a ruthless bank robber, is determined to find out who killed his partner and took the one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars they stole from an Arizona bank

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