There is something alluring and compelling about the old Mystery/Crime/Detective books from the 1940s and 1950s.
The stories were real gut-wrenchers. There was no soft-peddling. There were bad guys and good guys-no blurring of the line between.
Sure, many followed a pretty set formula but if an author was good enough and if they really knew their chops they could use the formula to their advantage.
In Stark House Noir Classics' Lion Trio 4 three tales of Passion, Crime and Mystery set within the 1940s and 1950s grab you by the throat and won’t let go until you finish each tale.
In Act Of Violence, by Basil Heatter, ex-resistant fighter during World War II Tony has settled in New England with Eva.
Employed as ski instructor he has settled into his new profession but he still has a feeling of unease because he knows his past has made him a marked man.
He knows it, accepts it and expects his peaceful life to end violently one day-that is until he meets Lee, her brother and discovers a new reason to survive.
In Naked In The Dark by Paul Conant, the main character of the book is a little off-settling. Jim Stetson is a member of a movement that is dedicated to radical change. Eventually the group hopes to take over. Unfortunately a rival group has plans of their own and part of that plan is to see Jim dead.
They send their best ‘agents’ after him-all female. One-by-one they try to seduce him, persuade him or kill him. Will he survive the deadliest threat of all-seduction?
In My Gun, her Body by author Jeff Bogar, on a visit to a Florida town Jeff Bogar hopes to meet up with his old friend Mike McCullum-the only problem is-he’s nowhere to be found.
What Jeff does find is an abduction, a beating and near death.
He survives with a lust for revenge-with the help of Dinah. But is she a friend or a foe? Does her association with a local thug have anything to do with Mike’s disappearance?
Three tales-three tales of Intrigue, Suspense and Mystery. It’s good old-fashioned Crime and Mystery all wrapped up in a trio of stories. Embrace the dark and mysterious world of Crime Noir-there’s no telling what you might find in the shadows.
1 Thessalonians 5:9-11For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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