----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Bassett" <
dj_bassett@yahoo.com>
> Another obvious choice would be the best books
from
> the Lion line. I know very little about them, but
I
> read an essay in the BIG BOOK OF NOIR which made
them
> sound absolutely mouthwatering. I have *never* found
a
> Lion paperback, and I do keep an eye out for
them.
"Sleep With the Devil" and "Joy House" by Day Keene are both
excellent (and printed by several other publishers - my "Joy
House" is a Lancer double with Milton Ozaki's "City Of Sin").
SWTD is one of my all-time favourites. As is Gerald Kersh's
"Prelude To A Certain Midnight", which I much preferred
to
"Night And The City". Elaezar Lipsky's "Kiss of Death" (aka
The Hoodlum) is pretty good. Millen Brand's "The Outward
Room" is wonderfully bleak, but it isn't a crime novel. I
have "Lie Down Killer" (Prather), but haven't read it yet.
Two of Karp's books published by Lion were also published by
another publisher (can't remember who) under different titles
and, just to be extra confusing, a pseudonym ("The Big
Feeling", aka "The Gentle Thief" by Wallace Ware, and "Cry
Flesh", aka "The Girl On Crown Street" by Wallace
Ware).
Al Guthrie
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