Garrity

Garrity

Garrity aka David J. Garrity aka David J. Gerrity (1923-1984) was in the Merchant Marines and, without giving up his day job, wrote his first two novels, Kiss Off the Dead and Cry Me a Killer, in a style and voice very similar to Mickey Spillane, his good friend and mentor. He wrote six more books over the years, including a crime novel based on a Spillane story and two ghost-written memoirs, one for a stripper and another for a private eye.

 

Books by Garrity

CRY ME A KILLER

CRY ME A KILLER

Detective Sgt. Walter Patterson is one of the few cops in the dark, miserable, corrupt city who can’t be bought or scared off, who isn’t a puppet of ruthless mobster Vince Ballanca. But Patterson is in a worse hell. He’s in love with the fat mobster’s wife… and to take her away from Ballanca, and survive, he’ll have to become a killer.

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KISS OFF THE DEAD

KISS OFF THE DEAD

They stripped him of his badge, framed him for murder, and tossed him into the middle of a gangland war.

Max Carey is a hard-nosed NYC cop who takes bribes to satisfy his wife’s expensive tastes. But when his corruption is exposed, and he’s thrown off the force, his wife leaves him and runs away. He spends several years chasing her down. When he finally finds her in Florida, she’s murdered and the crime is pinned on him by the underworld, who also send some killers to rub him out. Now Carey is out for bloody revenge and his own brand of tough justice.

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Best Pulp Noir Fiction Volume Nine: Four Hardboiled Novels

Best Pulp Noir Fiction Volume Nine: Four Hardboiled Novels

Four hard-boiled, pulp noir novels by four masters of the craft, full of violence, sex, action, and adventure, back in print for the first time in sixty years.

The novels are:
KISS OFF THE DEAD by "Garrity" (David J. Garrity)
OUTLAW BREED by William Byron Mowery
LUST FOR YOUTH by Warner Jackson
COMPOSITION FOR FOUR HANDS by Hilda Lawrence
THE HOUSE by Hilda Lawrence *BONUS*

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