James L. Rubel (1895-1960) wrote nearly 50 novels, most of them westerns, under his own name and various pseudonyms, including “Mason Macrae,” for his UK-published titles). His westerns The Medico of Painted Springs, Prairie Stranger and Thunder Over the Prairie became a trilogy of movies in 1941. But he is perhaps best known today for his 1950, hard-boiled female PI novel No Business for a Lady.
A twisty, pulp noir classic -- doubling down on Double Indemnity -- back in print for the first time in over 60 years.
Cleo McGowan is all of a man’s desires wrapped in a tight fitting dress...she's also greedy, fiendish and sexually insatiable. Her older husband Clifton hires door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman Danny Slick to seduce her and create the grounds for a clean divorce. Meanwhile, Cleo wants Danny to kill Clifton, her brutal and rich spouse, so they can get all of his money and run off together. Just another sinfully sunny day in Southern California...
A western classic, back in print for the first time in 85 years!
Dr. Cliff Monroe treats Shan Jungward, a nestor’s ill daughter, inadvertently sparking a bloody range war between the homesteaders and the allied forces of cowmen and sheepherders. The conflict leads to homes being torched, cattle being slaughtered, and the potential massacre of entire families. To stop the destruction and bloodshed, and bring peace back to Painted Springs, Monroe has to strap on his guns and become the law once again...
When beautiful abstract artist Nicolette Starmont took rough-and-tumble law student Mel Corbin to her bed as her model and gigolo, he considered himself very lucky. She loved sex, which inspired her art, but it also filled an aching, insatiable hunger for her that no man alone could satisfy. He soon discovered that the hot, carefree eighteen-year-old was already a widow, and that she'd eagerly satisfy her needs with men or women, depending upon who was handly, willing and had the necessary stamina. But as she rises in the art world and he becomes a criminal defense lawyer, their unusual, years-long, purely sexual arrangement takes a horrific turn, shattering their world and forcing Mel into the fight of his life.
