Harry Vernor Dixon (1908-1984) was a professional dancer before becoming a novelist and a prolific short-story author.
Wealthy San Francisco widow Irene Wilson convinces drunken writer Morgan O'Keefe to help clear her of the lingering suspicion that she murdered her husband, whom she mistook for a prowler and shot.
"Dixon can be compared to Jim Thompson." Pornokitsch
A noir classic back in print for the first time in over 65 years.
Lee Burke carried the hell of war back to Carmel, California with him...and everyone he touched him felt his torment. Except, perhaps, for Sharon, a wealthy, hard-partying widow, who married him and tried to battle his brutal, insatiable demons with all of her love and money until they became her own, too. Now they're trapped in a passionate struggle that could destroy them both, body and soul.
"Although the story is more thoughtful than the average noir novel, its typically simple prose and fast pace are likely to please fans of the genre." Reading California Fiction