I read a 1950s book, Day Keene's LOVE ME AND DIE. This is one
of those Phantom Books, a digest-sized publication from 1951.
Keene liked to use similar situations in different books, and
this one begins with a p.i. on retainer to a movie studio
getting a call from a movie star who believes he might have
killed someone in a hit-and-run accident. That's virtually
the same set-up as the one in another Keene book from the
same publisher, but I can't recall the name of it right now.
Anyway, it's only 128 pages long, so it moves pretty quickly,
with gangsters and sadistic hoods, beautiful half-naked
women, a few beatings, and a murder or two. Keene, like his
friend Harry Whittington, wasn't stylish, but he could tell a
story.
Bill Crider
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