5 Noir Novels by Lionel White
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Overview: Lionel White was born in 1905 and died in 1985. He wrote dark, noirish stories about good guys and bad guys. Some of his books were made into movies. Stanley Kubrick liked his book Clean Break so much he licensed the rights for his film The Killing in 1956. In Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, he is listed as an inspiration for the film in the credits.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Snatchers: A 33-year-old con named Cal Dent has orchestrated the abduction of the young daughter of a wealthy Connecticut family. Dent and the team of criminals he has assembled for the big job have taken the child, along with her pretty governess, to a beach cottage in a small tourist town on Long Island. It’s October, and the area where they’re holed up is largely deserted. From this hideout, Dent and his cronies attempt to execute Dent’s complex plan for demanding and collecting a vast amount of ransom money from the child’s parents, after which they plan to flee the country.
The Merriweather File: Howard Yates, a lawyer in a New York City suburb, is asked for help by the Merriweathers, his good friends and kind neighbors, when they are involved in the unlikeliest circumstances; Ann Merriweather, a particularly lovely young woman, is almost killed, and a little later Charles is arrested after the body of a man has been found in the trunk of his car. Yates takes the case which is increasingly impossible to contest; Charles proves to have been a liar as well as unfaithful to his wife. But while he is electrocuted for a crime he insists until the end he did not commit- a residual doubt remains, for a grim latterday revelation…
Marilyn K. & The house next door: "You’ve heard the story a dozen times: a hundred times. From the lips of hundreds of liars. This guy is driving down a lonely road, all by himself, bored, indifferent, not really going any place in particular. Nothing to do. Then, suddenly, there at the side of the road is this beautiful, young, helpless girl. No one else in sight, nothing but the girl and the lonesome road and she standing there waiting for a ride…"
The indifferent guy is Sam Russell, who soon finds he gets more than he bargains for when he stops for the girl by the side of the road. Lying in a ditch is the remains of her crashed vehicle. And at the wheel, a very dead guy who looks suspiciously like famed mobster, Aurelio Marcus. And sitting nearby, a suitcase…filled with greenbacks. Russell has just met Marilyn K. She needs his help. What’s a guy to do….?
Tomlinson has figured out the perfect heist. But it begins to unravel when a passer-by sees the gun, screams, causing Tomlinson to flinch before he can make the snatch. After that, it’s one problem after another. First Arbuckle is shot. After Tomlinson brings his accomplice back to the house, a drunk neighbor accidentally climbs into the wrong window and discovers Arbuckle in the bed. The Swansons are having one of their wild parties that night, so of course no one can hear much over the noise, least of all the gun shots.
Death of a city: A brutal precis of the burn, baby, burning of a small Southern city which has had its head in the ground. Black children are killed in the explosion in a church and the fire fans out–into panic, riot, rape and major losses of life and property. Mr. White records it energetically enough but one wonders if he isn’t more successful in making up his own stories rather than reworking fact into marginal fiction.
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