10 Novels by Harry Whittington (8 in ePUB, Temptations of Valerie in PDF)
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Overview: Harry Whittington was the king of the paperback originals. He wrote mysteries, westerns, romance and adventure novels. Despite his prolific output, Whittington’s work was always of the highest quality. Celebrated and perhaps appreciated most in France, Whittington was lionized by the Magazine Literaire, in Paris: "For the past twenty-five years," they wrote, "we in France have considered Harry Whittington one of the masters of the roman noir in the second generation-after Hammett, Chandler, Cain."
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Suspense
A Moment to Prey (1959) aka Backwoods Tramp
Lily knew what she wanted, and that was a man who would take her away from the dirt road and one-room country shack she called home. Lily was different than the other swamp folks, different and smarter. She was looking not only to get out but for something, and it was clear that she’d do anything to get whatever that might be, including commit murder. It was impossible to avoid her, her sleepy eyes that made it seem that she’d just crawled out of a warm bed, her full lips and lush body. An insurance investigator is sent by his company from St. Louis to find out the truth about a hundred thousand dollar scam; he discovers the truth, all right, but Lily makes him concentrate on something altogether different.
A Night for Screaming (1960)
Ex-cop Mitch Walker is on the run after being wrongfully accused of murder. So Walker hops a train and ends up in a small town in Kansas, where he signs up to work at a huge farm owned by Barton M. Cassel, the big man in the county.
The farm looks like a good place to hide from Fred Palmer, his pursuer and former partner, and the local cops, but Walker soon finds himself caught between the jealous battle of his new employer, and Cassel’s beautiful wife, Eve. And one way or the other, nobody leaves the farm.
A Ticket to Hell (1959)
He was a tall and slender man in his early thirties with a bitter hunger in his face. There was a strength about him that the tailored jacket couldn’t conceal or soften, and a readiness about him that clashed with the expensive car and the hand-sawn luggage.
Ex-convict Ric Durazo was a man on a mission – well chosen for the job of saving someone’s life, even if it cost him his own.
A Ticket to Hell is a fast-paced noir ride through the cheap motels and desert canyons of New Mexico.
Call Me Killer (1951)
Homicide Detective Barney Manton had a simple theory about catching murderers. Just beat, torture, and hound your suspect until his life becomes completely unbearable. Stay on top of him every hour of every day until he yearns for release—even release via the death chamber. Presto! You have your confession, the law has its “murderer” and the case is closed…He was just a little guy called Sam Gowan. He was holding an empty automatic in his hand. At his feet lay the body of a man who had been shot through the head. Sam Gowan’s clothes were covered with the man’s blood—Sam Gowan’s senses reeled with panic—one thought came through—Escape! Cover your tracks and escape!…Sam Gowan had never heard of Homicide Detective Barney Manton—Manton never knew that a little guy called Sam Gowan existed. Capricious fate decreed that the two men meet in a deadly, unequal contest, a cat and mouse struggle with all the resources of the police department arraigned on the side of the powerful and sadistic Homicide Detective.
Fires That Destroy (1951)
Bernice tried to live twice, by bringing death to one man that she might live with another.
Instead of the paradise she sought, she found herself in a self-created hell, married to the devil, and death in life her portion.
Mourn the Hangman (1952)
Blake opened the door and took his first step into Hell. He had come to his apartment with a lilt in his walk, pleasantly burdened with candy and flowers. This was to be a reconciliation with his wife, Stella. Stella, who hated private investigators private snitches, she called them. So he had resigned from the firm of Bricker and Blake: Investigators. Too bad it had to be in the middle of the tough Arrenhower job. But Stella was worth it. The room was in shambles. There was Stella, battered and bloody, sprawled on a chair. She had been brutally bludgeoned to death. Im dead, Steve black thought, and I cant cry. Who will I cry for? For Stella, who’d never hear me now? Maybe Ill cry for the man who killed her. Maybe Ill cry for him when I find him and maybe God himself will cry for him before Im through…
Temptations of Valerie (1957) (PDF)
Valery – young, lonely, filled with desire, she came from a foreign land to marry the town’s hero – and when she had made him and his money her own, she proceeded to blacken his name, to drag it through mire, until he found himself facing the charge of murder!
Some of the townsfolk took her side; others called her slattern, vixen – and worse!
Who was she? What was she? And once a man had found out – could he save himself?
The Devil Wears Wings (1960)
A terrific heist novel, and a superb introduction to Whittington’s ouvre. The novel chronicles the descent of former World War Two pilot, Buz Johnson. A classic noir prototype, Johnson is a washed-up alcoholic, a failure by his own doing, now working as a flight instructor at a Florida flight school for a boss he despises. When fellow drunkard Sid Coates comes along and presents one last chance to make it big via an airplane heist of a small town bank, Johnson seizes the chance to redeem his life and maybe give him a shadow of a chance to win the girl of his dreams.
You’ll Die Next! (1954)
An ordinary fellow wakes up to a stranger knocking at his door and is beaten to a pulp, fired from his job, and plunged into an insomniac nightmare from which he cannot escape.
The Naked Jungle (1955) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2016)
Only three survivors of the airliner crash landed on this deserted tropical island:Webb, who bore in his heart the festering wound of an unfaithful woman. Fran, who sought love and found only inescapable domination. Krayer, whose hands and glands obeyed the icy laws of his inhuman logic.
They managed to survive the violence of nature only to face the fiercer violence of human passions. For their need of each other was only exceeded by their hate.
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