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The Ice People – René Barjavel

2015-08-24

A group of Antarctic explorers unearths a golden sphere deep under the ice, housing two humans who had been cryogenically frozen before pre-history.

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Black Wings Has My Angel – Elliott Chaze

2014-07-20

Escaped convict Tim Sunblade and tramp call-girl Virginia, trapped in a love/hate relationship, execute the perfect job: an armored truck heist that’ll make them rich…

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Don’t Speak to Strange Girls – Harry Whittington

2014-05-20

In the midst of depression brought on by the death of his wife, aging Hollywood star Clay Stuart falls into an obsessive lust for a dangerous young woman…

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Cropper’s Cabin – Jim Thompson

2014-04-05

For Tommy Carver, Okie sharecropper with a short fuse, standing up to his miserable life may be the only way to escape it—if he’s not caught for a crime he didn’t commit.

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Night Squad – David Goodis

2014-03-15

Living in squalid disgrace, a former crooked cop may have struck it big: the local hood hires him as protection, then the cops hire him to bring in the local hood…

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The Captain Must Die – Robert Colby

2014-02-10

For twelve long years they remembered. For twelve long years they plotted. And now Captain Driscoll was going to pay for what he had done to them during the war.

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The Grifters – Jim Thompson

2013-05-16

Roy Dillon, professional con-man, is dying. His estranged mother Lilly arrives in time to save him, but their poisonous past—and Lilly’s feud with Roy’s girlfriend—make for a rocky future.

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The Red Scarf – Gil Brewer

2012-12-15

Roy Nichols is up to his neck in debt. His salvation comes in the form of a briefcase packed with cash. However, the money’s Mafia owners may have something to say about Roy using it.

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.44 – H.A. DeRosso

2012-08-31

Self-destructive gun for hire kills a man, triggering a moral quandary; he sets out on journey to discover who wanted the man dead and enact revenge.

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A Touch of Death – Charles Williams

2012-08-03

Broke and broken ex-football star is enticed by a plot to find $120,000; all he has to do is sneak into a dead man’s mansion and find the hidden cash. Easier said than done.

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The Peddler – Richard S. Prather

2012-06-29

Teenager decides to escape his life in the slums by turning to the Syndicate and the life of organized prostitution. If you can’t guess, another one with an unsavory protagonist.

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