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  • The Squeeze / -And the Girl Screamed
    Gil Brewer
    THE SQUEEZEJoe Maule had been set up. He’s into gambler Victor Jarnigan for $12,000. And naturally Jarnigan has a plan for Joe to pay him back, with interest. Jarnigan knows a guy who’s sitting on $260,000 in stolen money, afraid to use it. All Joe has to do is get close to the guy’s sister-in-law, and he’s in. Finding the money should be a cinch, particularly if Joe doesn’t wa...
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    15,75 €

  • Wild
    Gil Brewer
    When Lee Baron returns to his hometown in Florida to take over his dad’s private detective business, his very first client turns out to be an old flame, Ivor Hendrix. She’s got husband troubles and wants Lee to act as go-between. But when Lee visits the trailer where they lived together, he finds a dead body instead. In fact, all the clues point to a tie-in between the corpse a...
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    8,84 €

  • Satan is a Woman / 13 French Street
    Gil Brewer
    SATAN IS A WOMANLarry Cole’s brother Tad is sent up for life for the murder of a couple fellow hoods. Larry has always looked up to Tad, and knows that if he just had enough money, he could buy him a lawyer that could get him out. When he meets Joan, his new neighbor, Larry gets sidetracked by love. He’s crazy with it.  But Joan is full of surprises, and she has a plan-to rob t...
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    15,66 €

  • Death Comes Last
    Gil Brewer
    DEATH COMES LASTTaken together, Death Comes Last and the expanded Redheads Die Quickly contain all of Brewer’s short fiction published between 1951 and 1959. Additionally, Death Comes Last features:• 'The Golden Scheme,' Brewer’s last remaining unpublished story from the1950s;• a pair of crime stories published in 1929 and 1930 by Gil Brewer’s father(who, confusingly, also publ...
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    13,98 €

  • The Tease / Sin for Me
    Gil Brewer
    THE TEASEWes McCord and his wife are fighting again, and this time it looks like she’s going to leave him for good. She doesn’t trust him; thinks he drinks too much. Alone that evening, Wes receives an unexpected guest, a terrified young girl named Bonnie—on the run and crying rape. Worse, she had witnessed the death of the "old man," and was being chased by his friends. Wes ag...
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    15,65 €

  • Die Once-Die Twice
    Gil Brewer
    DIE ONCE—DIE TWICE The opening sentence of “I Had Sex with a Martian” warns its readers, “If you are at all shocked by startling unconventionality and descriptions of male sexual members, do not read my story.” Here are 24 previously unpublished stories from the noir master, Gil Brewer. Beyond the fact that Brewer wrote outstanding short stories, an important reason to read his...
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    12,57 €

  • Death is a Private Eye
    Gil Brewer
    DEATH IS A PRIVATE EYE“The reason these stories are being published only now, rather than 40 or more years ago when they were first written, is that Gil Brewer’s markets have come back to him. Brewer published his first great noir story in 1955, and he kept writing great noir stories for more than 20 years, long after there were magazines eager to buy them. . . . Now, in 2019, ...
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    12,94 €

  • Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories
    Gil Brewer
    REDHEADS DIE QUICKLY Gil Brewer, the frantic master of compulsive noir fiction—the man of whom author/editor Ed Gorman once said, “at his best, he hooked you in the first paragraph and never let you go.”  According to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, “Brewer marinated crime and lust together in the humid Florid...
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    14,36 €

  • The Red Scarf / A Killer is Loose
    Gil Brewer
    THE RED SCARF Roy Nichols needs to find some quick cash to keep from losing his motel. The new highway was supposed to go through, providing plenty of business, but now it’s been delayed.  The bank refuses to help, and his brother turns him down. Desperate and on the way back home, he catches a ride with a bickering couple named Vivian and Teece. They start drinking, then Teece...
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    14,47 €

  • Wild to Possess / A Taste for Sin
    Gil Brewer
    WILD TO POSSESS   Lew Brookbank is running from his grief. His wife had left him for another man, and he had discovered them together--murdered. Drowning himself in gin, one night he stumbles across a parked car where a man and a woman are plotting the kidnapping and murder of the man's wife. At first he thinks he should turn them in, but there is some real money involved...
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    14,26 €

  • The Erotics / Gun the Dame Down / Angry Arnold
    Gil Brewer
    THE EROTICS   Chris Pope is an artist stuck selling driftwood to tourists. So when sex kitten Bernice comes to him with a plan to rip off her husband's safe and run away together, he is sorely tempted. But Pope can't go through it. He leaves the husband unconscious and the safe open but can't bring himself to take the dough. The next morning, the husband is dead, ...
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    15,04 €

  • Nude on Thin Ice / Memory of Passion
    Gil Brewer
    NUDE ON THIN ICE   It starts with a letter. Ken McCall is sunning himself in Key West with his current girlfriend, Betty, when he finds out that his old friend Carl has died. Carl’s last wish was that Ken look after his wife, Nanette, a request which Ken is only too eager to fill. Besides, there may be a fortune to be had if he can just play his cards right. First he ditches ...
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    14,26 €