Beaten to a Pulp — Robert J. Randisi

New York private eye Miles Jacoby is hired to find a stolen collection of pulp magazines, but before long he's tangling with mobsters, hungry women and a sly killer. Said Elmore Leonard of the first Jacoby novel (Eye in the Ring): "If [it] moved any faster you'd have to nail it down to read it." Classic private eye fiction by the author of The End of Brooklyn (2011), which Booklist in its starred review described as "dark, brooding, and thoroughly compelling." All six Miles Jacoby novels are back in print in matched editions, with new Afterwords by the author.