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Two raw, hard-boiled novels featuring Vince Slader, an ex-cop turned PI, working the dark side of Hollywood. THE LONG NIGHTSlader is hired by a casino to hunt down a gambler with a $28, 000 tab in return for a percentage of the debt. It seems like a straight-forward job until Slader winds up framed for murder. As if that isn't bad enough, he becomes a target of hard-charging politicians and the West Coast mafia."An enjoyable 1950s crime-fictio...

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Didn't someone say that life in the early Middle Ages was 'nasty, brutish, and short'? That's a pretty good description of this book. Demaris was good." Bill Crider, award-winning writer of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes novels. Corrupt LAPD cop Vince Fusco crosses a big line when he executes a drug dealer for his drugs and his woman...but things get worse when he realizes there were witnesses. Now he's violently raging through the sordid alleys and b...

The first book in the hard-boiled, brutal Vince Slader PI series Vince Slader is an ex-cop-turned-PI who is hired by a casino to hunt down a gambler with a $28, 000 tab in return for a percentage of the debt. It seems like a straight-forward job until Slader winds up framed for murder. As if that isn't bad enough, he becomes a target of hard-charging politicians and the West Coast mafia."An enjoyable 1950s crime-fiction novel that retains most...

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Lucky Luciano was the undisputed leader of the Mafia after all his rivals were killed off. He was known for converting innocent school girls into drug addicted street prostitutes. He would use his dapper clothing and smooth way of talking to seduce the girls and soon they would be one of his girls walking the streets. The first chapter of this book shows a real example of how he took an innocent 16-year-old school girl and within a few hours t...

THE HOODS TAKE OVER Alan Avery is out one evening picking up medicine for his pregnant wife's migraine when he witnesses a brutal murder. Two thugs cut a guy's throat, then throw his body into their trunk and drive away. When he reports to the police exactly what he has seen, the cops are surprised to find someone who will actually stand up to the hoods in town. His wife fears the worst, but Alan sticks by his testimony. So when Ricca and Doto...

The night Jimmy Fratianno became a government witness, not a single Mafia boss slept. As a "made guy" in La Cosa Nostra, Jimmy Fratianno knew their best-kept secrets. A soldier, capo, and ex-boss of the Los Angeles family, involved at the highest levels with bookmaking, gambling, union racketeering, extortion, pornography, and virtually every criminal activity to which organized crime is linked, Fratianno also earned the reputation as the Mafl...

This long out-of-print book is reprinted here because in Chapter 30 entitled "Trumping Up the Boardwalk", starting on page 379, it reveals the compromises President-Elect Donald Trump made and had to make with the Mafia that was in control of Atlantic City to get his foot in the door. It reveals how Trump was able to use his connections to get in control of Atlantic City casinos without putting in a dime of his own money. These reports have be...

On the evening of March 1, 1932, five years after Charles A. Lindbergh made his famous historic flight over the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927, and after Charles A. Lindbergh had married the daughter of a wealthy investment banker and his wife had given birth to their child, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., they discovered that their baby had been kidnapped. They had just moved into a house they had built in a remote wooded area of New Jersey just...

J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of the FBI for 48 years from May 10, 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972. During most of that time, the view the general public had of Hoover was much as if he had been seated on the Right Hand of God. Late in his career one of his agents had the temerity to inform him that he was, after all, not Jesus Christ. By then, clamors for his removal had reached a crescendo. Three successive presidents, Kennedy, Johnso...