Seven Slayers by Paul Cain - 1994-03-29

Vintage, March 1994. Paper Back. Used - Very Good. Very good condition. May show some signs of use/age/shelf wear/creasing. No writing, stains, or tears.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Books, 1994. 1st edition, April 1994, so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. A new, unread copy. Not remainder marked. Not an ex-library copy. Seven brutally ingenius tales of murder, passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled. There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way from the station. There's the glamorous Bella, whose boyfriends have the distressing habit of stabbing one another while she naps in the next room. And of course there's Johnny Doolin, who hires himself out as a bodyguard--only to find that his client has no interest in staying alive. The men and women in Seven Slayers are exactly what the title promises: people who kill for love or money or for the sheer, perverse joy of homicide. And this riveting collection is one of the few surviving books by Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric, aka George… Read More

Vintage, 1994-03-29. Paperback. Used:Good.

Vintage, 1994-03-29. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1st edition.Nice looking book, has minor edge wear.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.