Four powerful, controversial, highly acclaimed novels set in the Deep South during the 1950s and early 1960s. These bold, provocative stories confront politics, race, crime, and sex head-on, reflecting a turbulent era—and leaving a lasting impression. All four novels are back in print for the first time in over sixty years and collected together for the first time ever in one massive ebook.
SO FAIR, SO EVIL – Paul Connolly
A Southern Gothic psychological thriller combining adultery, lust, greed, and buried hatred. After returning from the Korean War, Frank Sinclair becomes convinced his wife’s death was murder. His search for the truth in Huntsville exposes long-simmering resentments and dangerous secrets. Paperback Warrior calls it “enthralling,” while Mostly Old Books and Rust compares it to “Jim Thompson… written by William Faulkner.”
WALK WITH EVIL – Robert Wilder
Set in Redemption Cay, Florida, where a fortune in buried mob cash draws violence back to the surface. As a brutal crime boss hunts the money, a young reporter follows the trail, risking everything—including the life of the woman he loves. A tale of relentless suspense and bloody reckoning.
QUALITY – Cid Ricketts Sumner
A landmark novel of race and identity. Pinkey Johnson, a light-skinned Black woman passing as white, returns to Mississippi on the eve of her marriage, forced to confront the racism and injustice she once fled. Adapted into Elia Kazan’s Oscar-nominated film Pinky.
PASSION IN THE PINES – John B. Thompson & Jack Woodford
An ex-GI’s search for a shocking photograph in Mississippi pine country entangles him with corrupt backwoods tyrants, violence, and consuming lust.
Cid Ricketts Sumner, Jack Woodford, John B. Thompson, Paul Connolly, Robert Wilder /
Anthologies, Crime Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Sexy Fiction
