[good tight copy, minor spotting to top edge, light crease along left-hand side of front cover, moderate edgewear]. (Avon Classic Crime Collection) Series Mass Market PB Classic hard-boiled novel, in which "a handful of emeralds become the icy core of a murderous master plan." Cover blurb by Dashiell Hammett, who referred to it as "naked action pounded into tough compactness by staccato, hammerlike writing." Ouch.

Hard-boiled Black Mask Detectives