Description: Two noir mystery classics from 1960 and 1955, the first a comic caper set in the world of the music industry, the second a hardboiled story of a young gangster with high aspirations whose life is made complicated by a very headstrong woman.
Review Quotes: "Along with John D. MacDonald and Charles Williams, he was one of Gold Medal's Holy Trinity. When he was rolling, crime fiction just didn't get any better." -Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene "Rabe is a sensation in the rough, tough, murder field." -Albany Democrat Herald "His novels attain an intensity and effectiveness seldom achieved by many better-known writers. . . Few writers are Rabe's equal in the field of the hardboiled gangster story." -Bill Crider, Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers