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Overview: Lionel White (1905 – 1985) aka L W Blanco 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 Big Caper (1955)
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 Killing (1955) aka Clean Break
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 Killing was filmed in 1956 by director Stanley Kubrick, from a screenplay by Jim Thompson, and starred Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr. and Timothy Carey.
Hostage for a Hood (1957)
Every minute she had was borrowed, and every second ticked off the time for murder.
Joyce was driving along the deserted avenue. Just ahead on a side street, Cribbins checked the 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 quar¬ter 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 house¬wife and the hoods. And terror took over!
The Money Trap (1963) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2015)
Take an honest police detective—devoted both to his job and his wife.
Take the fact that his wife has money, likes living up to it—and doesn’t like living on a policeman’s salary.
Add the fact that our honest detective, Joe Baron, has a partner with a much more cynical view of life—and the stage is set for trouble.
Especially when to that setting is added seemingly the best of opportunities—the chance to get a million dollars from a man who could not admit to its existence.
Here, then, in Joe Baron’s own words—and Lionel White’s inimitable manner—is the suspenseful tale of how the lure of money became the trap for an honorable man.
The Mexico Run (1974)
I picked up the XKE in San Francisco. It cost me 2,600 bucks and it would do one hundred and forty. I needed that speed because what I was planning was a very fast buck.
I was on my way to Mexico to pick up some Acapulco gold for a very hungry U.S. dealer.
It was OK until I ran into a crooked Mexican cop named Morales. He had a slice of everything-grass, hard goods, gambling, prostitution, you name it. He was dangerous and tricky. And he would just as soon kill you as do business with you.
He was trying to do both with me. What started out as a simple plan to make a few illicit shekels was turning into a horror story.
It began with murder. A very kinky murder…
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