Crime Novels of the 1960s: Nine Classic Thrillers (a Library of America Boxed Set)

by O'Brien, Geoffrey
ISBN: 9781598537390
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Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s.

Here in two volumes are nine timeless novels, including four lost classics now restored to print.

In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction. Here are nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade:

  • Fredric Brown's The Murderers (1961), a darkly comic look at a murderous plot hatched on the hip fringes of Hollywood.
  • Dan J. Marlowe's terrifying The Name of the Game Is Death (1962), about a nihilistic career criminal on the run
  • Charles Williams's Dead Calm (1963), a masterful novel of natural peril and human evil on the high seas.
  • Dorothy B. Hughes's The Expendable Man (1963), an unsettling tale of racism and wrongful accusation in the American Southwest.
  • Richard Stark's taut The Score (1964), in which the master thief Parker plots the looting of an entire city with the cool precision of an expert mechanic.
  • The Fiend (1964), in which Margaret Millar maps the interlocking anxieties of a seemingly tranquil California suburb through the rippling effects of a child's disappearance.
  • Ed McBain's classic police procedural Doll (1965), a breakneck story that mixes murder, drugs, fashion models, and psychotherapy with the everyday professionalism of the 87th Precinct.
  • Run Man Run (1966), Chester Himes's nightmarish tale of racism and police violence that follows a desperate young man seeking safe haven in New York City while being hunted by the law.
  • Patricia Highsmith's ultimate meta-thriller, The Tremor of Forgery (1969), a novel in which a displaced traveler finds his own personality collapsing as he attempts to write a novel about a man coming undone.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: O'Brien, Geoffrey
  • ISBN: 9781598537390
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 1900
  • Publication Year: 2023
Language: English