Böcker av James Duff

A hard-boiled classic, back in print for the first time in over 60 years. Tough, cynical private eye Johnny Phelan is hired by a teenage girl's wealthy father to recover sexually-explicit photos of her that are being used by blackmailers to extort the family. But things get complicated when the hot-blooded girl's lover in the pictures is murdered... "The story has many twists and turns. Fans of hard-boiled fiction won't be disappointed." Reading California Fiction

Johnny Phelan had two corpses behind him-"Three and you're out, Johnny," the cops told him. "Out of this world, real gone cool on a marble slab . . . worth a hot quarter-million bucks in small kills . . ."So in the land of masquerade and make-up, Hollywood's toughest private peep ducked wild bullets and wilder babes-to learn the hard way that- YOU CAN ALWAYS DIE TWICE!"This is hard-boiled mystery with all the necessary elements... Fans of the hard-boiled are likely to enjoy the book." -- Reading California Fiction