HER WEALTHY STEPFATHER WAS DYING –?BUT NOT QUICKLY ENOUGH What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that’s the life she was trapped in
In the words of one critic, "a turbulent, never-ending nose-dive into the depths of one man’s paranoia that, to his utter and horrifying dismay, repeatedly comes true."
Gil Brewer is one of the modern masters of desperate noir fiction, and this is the first collection of his short stories, expanded to include five stories left out of the original edition.
Gil Brewer wrote novels of "sweaty desperation," according to author James Reasoner. These are two of his best, written at the peak of Brewer's career.
A disgraced artist is framed for murder, a private detective is hired as the perfect patsy and a serial killer stalks the Florida streets in these rare treasures from the feverish mind of Gil Brewer.
