A rich and dangerous game

White, Lionel

D. McKay Co.

Ex-con Johnny Clay works out a scheme to steal a racetrack payroll, but Sherry Peatty has her own plans to let Johnny do the dirty work while she grabs the money for herself and her boyfriend

The Killing

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Black Lizard Books

AT EXACTLY 9:14 A.M. Joyce was driving along the deserted avenue. Just ahead on a side street, Cribbins checked t he second hand of his watch for the last time. He swung the heavy Cadillac around the corner. He had a rendezvous with an armored car and a quarter of a million dollars; he had a tommy gun to make sure it all went off smoothly. Everything was timed, everything was planned down to the most insignificant detail--except for Joyce Sherwood and her eight-year-old Chevy, which crashed deep into the side of Cribbins' stolen car. That's how they met--the housewife and the hoods. And terror took over.

Hostage for a Hood

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Wildside Press

Memorable pulp noir, a forgotten classic. From the Gold Medal author of more than 35 pulp hard boiled crime thrillers; Lionel White was praised by The New York Times as "the master of the big caper.” They’re set. They’re ready. Here it comes…. Professional fence Frank Harper was loaded six weeks ago, after his last successful jack backed by butter and egg man Flood. But after dropping two thousand berries on a three-legged nag, Frank is desperate for some lettuce, fast.  The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil. There was the arsonist, the safe blower, the boy-faced killer-there was a regiment of crack, lawless men waiting out the minutes until Saturday night-the night the town would explode into violence. For in the center of town sat the bank-a citadel of twelve million dollars, impregnable as Gibraltar, safe as a church. Safe-until precisely ten-fifteen on Saturday night. Until the wheels began to pick up momentum, and suddenly a fire lit the sky, and the power went off all over town and under way went the king-sized knock-over. The grand slam. The Big Caper.

The Big Caper

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a foolproof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. Two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnny do the work, then she'll take it for herself and her boyfriend. Originally published in 1955 under the title Clean Break. Basis for the 1956 Stanley Kubrick film.

Black Curtain Press

A groundbreaking, multi-part narrative about a plot to rob a racetrack on its busiest day of the year, using one criminal mastermind, and several ordinary people.  The heist comes up smooth, but things go awry when one of the regular guys involved tells the wrong person.  Stanley Kubrick liked the story so much, he optioned the rights, hiring Jim Thompson as screenwriter to produce noir classic "The Killing."

Clean Break

Disruptive Pub

The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil. There was the arsonist, the safe blower, the boy-faced killer--there was a regiment of crack, lawless men waiting out the minutes until Saturday night--the night the town would explode into violence. For in the center of town sat the bank--a citadel of twelve million dollars, impregnable as Gibraltar, safe as a church. Safe--until precisely ten-fifteen on Saturday night. Until the wheels began to pick up momentum, and suddenly a fire lit the sky, and the power went off all over town and under way went the king-sized knockover. The grand slam. The Big Caper.

Contemporary

Black Mask

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a fool-proof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. The two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnny do the work, then she'll grab the swag for herself and her boyfriend.

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a fool-proof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. The two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnny do the work, then she'll grab the swag for herself and her boyfriend.

The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil. There was the arsonist, the safe blower, the boy-faced killer-there was a regiment of crack, lawless men waiting out the minutes until Saturday night-the night the town would explode into violence. For in the center of town sat the bank-a citadel of twelve million dollars, impregnable as Gibraltar, safe as a church. Safe-until precisely ten-fifteen on Saturday night. Until the wheels began to pick up momentum, and suddenly a fire lit the sky, and the power went off all over town and under way went the king-sized knockover. The grand slam. The Big Caper.

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A rich and dangerous game

The Killing

Hostage for a Hood

The Big Caper

The Killing

Clean Break

The Big Caper

The Killing

The Killing

The Big Caper