Horace McCoy

• Jul-2025
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High above the border, justice flies with a badge and a .45.In this explosive conclusion to Horace McCoy's legendary pulp aviation series, Headfirst Into Hell: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Frost, Volume 2 collects the final seven action-pac...

• Jul-2022
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Remembered for his novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, author Horace McCoy began his writing career as a mainstay during the golden age of Black Mask Magazine, selling nearly 20 stories to editor Joseph T. Shaw. A former aviator, McCoy penned 14 ...

• Jan-2013
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A young law professor is hired to clean up a city strangled by corruption Nemo Crespi's organization has a hand in everything from gambling rackets to hotels to newspapers. To combat him, the governor needs a special prosecutor he can trust, some...

• Jan-2013
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Returning home in the wake of his brother's death, a successful man must grapple with his coal-town roots For four generations, Colonel Tom Owen's family has been defined by the coal business. Having pulled himself out of the mines and through col...

• Aug-1998
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In this ingenious novel, a passionate journalist takes on his city's rampant corruption Mike Dolan is a widely read columnist, but he's intensely frustrated by his newspaper's attitude toward the truth. All the articles he's most keen to run̵...

• Dec-1996
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McCoy's hardboiled noir classic, about an Ivy League graduate's criminal rampage through the seedy underground and glitzy high society of an unnamed American city   To escape prison, Ralph Cotter uses the same genius for planning and...

• Feb-1996
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Temptation and desire in Hollywood. Hard-boiled. Perverse! Ralph Carston, a handsome young man from Georgia, and roommate Mona Matthews work as extras and dream of Hollywood stardom when a courtroom fracas by Mona gives them a flash of notoriety. Thi...

• Jun-1995
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During the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny of the media, corporate sponsors and obsessive fans, the competing couples ...