He’d been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man’s life can always get worse - as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub...
Drowning his sorrows of the past in cheap alcohol, former detective-turned-Bowery bum Matt Cordell finds himself back on the job when he is asked to investigate a double murder involving an old...
A collection of six short stories featuring detective Matt Cordell (here renamed "Curt Cannon") that were originally published in Manhunt magazine from January 1953 to February...