Crime Masterworks

Short fictional works by the modern American writer explore the world of crime and violence, mysterious women, and hard-hitting private detectives.

"Sans un evenement fortuit, le geste de Frank Friedmaier, cette nuit-la, n'aurait eu qu'une importance relative. Frank, evidemment, n'avait pas prevu que son voisin Gerhardt Holst passerait dans la rue. Or, le fait que Holst etait passe et l'avait reconnu changeait tout. Mais cela aussi, et tout ce qui devait s'ensuivre, Frank l'accepta."--Amazon.com. Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in France under German occupation, and he works as a pimp in his mother's whorehouse when he murders a German soldier.

Rogue male is a short novel written in the first person about a failed Hitler assassination, including aspects of a city chase scene, and a series of narrow escapes by the protagonist from two following german spies in rural England.

William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. His is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal "accident" in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an affable con man and a highly arousing woman, whose plans for him include kidnapping, murder, and much, much worse.