Posts Categorized: Literary Fiction

Fire in the Flesh By

Fire in the Flesh Jack Sheridan's pulp-noir classic, back in print for the first time in over sixty years.  "Sheridan seems to be aiming at, and achieving, something higher and more powerful than just an entertaining story." New York World-Telegram

The Only Game in Town By

The Only Game in Town One of the all-time classic baseball novels is finally back-in-print after sixty years. It's a story that only Charles Einstein, the sports writer beloved by millions in the 1950s and the biographer of Willie Mays, could have told.

Stat Hunter is the manager of a minor league baseball team who is struggling to keep his life and his players together. His wife has left him, he's being threatened by a blackmailer with secrets from his past, and his most promising player is being pressured by gamblers. He knows he should walk away from it all...but he can't. Because the only thing he's ever wanted, the only thing he could ever really do, and the only thing in the whole damn world worth caring about, is baseball.

Racial Noir: Six Full Novels By /////

Racial Noir: Six Full Novels Six classic novels rife with passion, crime, betrayal, sex and violence set amidst the racial conflicts raging in the deep south in the 1950s and 60s. 

A WIND IS RISING by William Russell
FACE OF MY ASSASSIN by Carolyn Weston and Jan Huckins
HONEY IN LOUISIANA (Two Novels) by John B. Thompson
THE INTEGRATION OF MAYBELLE BROWN by Bonnie Golightly
QUALITY by CID RIckets Sumner
THE PEOPLE FROM HEAVEN by John Sanford

The Ungilded Lily By

The Ungilded Lily It's 1950s Chicago. Magazine writer Peter Farmer is hired to spend a week with Lily Dexter, the hottest and richest stripper in the city, and ghostwrite a racy, autobiographical expose under her name that will be published in a national magazine. But his job goes beyond that...