Classic noir fiction - the thirteenth in the 'Crime Masterworks' series, a library of the finest crime novels and thrillers ever written.
George Stroud , executive editor at 'Crimeways' magazine, is involved with the wrong woman - his boss's. When Janoth, the boss, kills her in an argument, he tries to pin the crime on a man seen outside her home just before the murder. He assigns his best investigative reporter - Stroud - to find the man. Trouble is, the man was Stroud himself . . .
An audacious and ironic novel of terror and high tension.
'Crime Masterworks' is a library of the greatest crime fiction ever written, chosen with the help of today's leading crimewriters and critics. However, they are categorised - hard-boiled, suspense, police procedural - all books in the series are the best of their kind.
