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Overview: Peter Rabe (1921 – 1990) aka J T MacCargo, Marco Malaponte
Peter Rabe was born in Germany as Peter Rabinowitsch in 1921,immigrating to the U.S. with his father in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He enrolled at Ohio State University and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Western Reserve in Cleveland. Married, he began his writing career by turning in a humorous story about the birth of his first daughter. Soon after, he began submitting hardboiled stories to Gold Medal where he found an enthusiastic editor and a ready market.
After a divorce, health problems and the death of the paperback original, Rabe eventually quit writing and took up teaching psychology at California Polytechnic State University in the late 60’s. He died in1990 at his home in Atascadero, California.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. DIG MY GRAVE DEEP
Daniel Port works for Stoker as his number two man, the brains behind all the crooked deals that’s kept Stoker’s gang going for years. But there’s a new set-up in town, a supposed reform party led by Bellamy.
Trouble is, Bellamy’s worse than Stoker and Port wants out of the whole rotten mess. But Stoker needs him and won’t let him go, and Bellamy is putting a lot of pressure on Port to force him to join his side. All Port wants is a ticket out of town, with Shelly by his side. What he’s got to do to make it happen is put together one more deal for Stoker. First though, he’s got to get around George and Kirby, Bellamy’s bully boys; and Fries, Stoker’s fiercely loyal heir apparent. Then there’s Calvin, Shelly’s kid brother, who wants to be a big shot. Port’s got a lot riding on this deal—it could just be the deal of his life.
2. THE OUT IS DEATH
Abe Dalton has been in the joint too long. Now that he’s out, the aging safecracker wants to stay out. But Dicky Corday has other plans.
Holding an old job over his head, Corday forces Dalton to help him plan a robbery at the Newton plant. Dalton is desperate, and calls on his old friend, Dan Port, to help him get out of the deal. Port comes to town and sets up a meeting with Corday. But Corday’s obsessed and this job is going to happen no matter what. Corday won’t be stopped not by Port, meddling in Corday’s business; not Dalton, trying to work his way out of his promise; and not his woman, Letty, who finds a certain sympathy with Port, who treats her better than Corday ever has.
Port soon gets more than he bargained for with Corday—behind his bullying lurks the promise of madness.
3. IT’S MY FUNERAL
Turning his back on his past, Port heads to Los Angeles where no one knows him. Or so he thinks. An unpleasant face from his past appears, and it’s Joko Mulnik, part of that past he thought he’d left behind.
What luck for Mulnik finding Port-he’s perfect for a deal he’s setting up. Mulnik is promoting new talent but when he shows Port his new set-up, along with it comes a nice little blackmail job as well. Mulnik’s got some compromising pictures of a studio’s biggest star, and he wants Port to broker the deal. Port wants nothing to do with Mulnik or his seedy schemes, but he gets pulled into the scheme anyway, first as the fall guy, then as the actress’s white knight. He should have known— you can never escape your past.
4. THE CUT OF THE WHIP
Daniel Port is driving through Texas when the other car appears out of nowhere. When Port eventually wakes up, he finds a ministering angel named Jane and her father, Carl Heering, the richest man in town. Heering admits that it was his son, Robert, that ran into Port and that the kid has run off with important business papers. He offers Port an easy grand to bring his son and the papers back. But when Port tracks the kid down, all is not as it seems. The business papers are love letters, the Heering heir is kidnapped, and Port finds he must solve the mystery and rescue Robert before he himself is implicated in the plot and put in prison for kidnapping.
5. BRING ME ANOTHER CORPSE
He could go it alone, or he could do it with the knowledge and help of a big organization. He didn’t like either alternative because it would be too much like going back, like starting all over in the kind of a life about which he no longer had any illusions … All those surface satisfactions that used to make life spin around with a speed that made you think, Sure now—you’re going someplace.
“I’ll try it your way,” he said to Lubinski, “and I hope it’s the fast way out.” Lubinski smiled at Port. The smile lasted a second, and then Lubinski opened his briefcase and drew out the usual folder.
“It can be fast,” he said. “A lot of it is already set up.” “Where do I fit?”
“You go to Cleveland,” said Lubinski, “and you hire out as your own killer…”
6. TIME ENOUGH TO DIE
Port thinks he’s escaped his problems. Time moves slowly in the Mexican coastal village of Guanadera, and that’s just the way he likes it—the sun on his face, a beer in his hand and nothing but Maria on his mind. So when Maria asks him to help her find her missing neighbor, an elderly gent named Kiamoto, he doesn’t give the project much thought. How could he know that d’Ortega and his henchman Capo were also looking for Kiamoto? They figure that an American gangster—and why else would Port be living in Guanadera?—must be in on the caper. Because Kiamoto is much more than he seems. And pretty soon there are American agents in on the game. Just when Port thought he was out of the rackets for good, he gets pulled into a crime that might cost him his life.
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