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Title: Dead on the Level

Author: Helen Nielsen

Narrator: Christian Rummel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

As in her sensational first offering, Helen Nielsen has again come up with a fast-paced and remarkably readable mystery. It begins when a gorgeous girl makes an incredible proposal, and ends when a would-be fall guy unearths some low schemes in high society - while solving a murder to save his own skin. The action is smooth, tough and colorful all the way.

Members Reviews:

Pure Pulp

During the classic pulp era of the 50's, you could probably count the women pulp writers on one hand. However, if you were so inclined to count them, you absolutely have to include Helen Nielsen on that short list. Nielsen wrote pulp and mysteries just as good as anyone from that era and her books are just fantastic reading. If you enjoy reading Gil Brewer, Talmadge Powell, and Harry Whittington, you ought to give Nielsen a try.

Her 1951 work, "Dead on the Level," contains all the classic pulp motifs, including a drunk man returning to town after eight long years and "drinking up his last handful of dwindling dollars," "this gorgeous doll (with eyes like purple smoke) [who] had come slithering into the cocktail lounge," five thousand dollars in cash, a blackout as to what happened the night before, a dead man, and a missing heiress. This book is pure pulp from the first page with the protagonist thinking that life was a sour deal "with a beginning you didn't ask for, an ending you couldn't help, and nothing in between that would even sell at a charity auction." And this girl was something else. Casey Morrow didn't have enough dough left to even buy her a drink, but she sat down and bought him one. She had eyes like purple smoke, "a cascade of taffy-colored hair," and a scent of spicy perfume enough to make him dizzy. Whatever proposition she had offered him, he must have accepted because he woke up the next morning with five grand in his pocket and half the police force of Chicago hunting for him.

It is a terrific pulp novel and amazingly one of Nielsen's earliest works. It is easy to read as the writing just drags you in without giving you much of a choice. It is short as was typical of novels in the early fifties. Primarily a mystery with a dead body, a drunk without a memory of what happened, and the most ravishing femme fatale of them all. I highly recommend this work.

Four Stars

Not a Simon Drake novel

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Title: The Prettiest Girl I Ever Killed

Author: Charles Runyon

Narrator: MIchael Kramer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Accidents happen, but the town of Sherman seems to have more than its fair share of the fatal kind. Someone falls into a well, another drowns, another is killed by an exploding stove. Curt Friedland comes back to town to clear his brother of murder, convinced there is more to all these deaths than mere coincidence. Enlisting the aid of Velda, whose sister was supposedly murdered by Curt's brother, the two of them gradually begin to attract the attention of a very ingenious killer, a man well versed in the game of Death.

Members Reviews:

Top-Notch Tale of Small-Town Southern Noir

Charles Runyon is best known as a science fiction writer, but it is unfortunate for us that he didnât write more crime fiction. He was quite good at it. âThe Prettiest Girl I Ever Killedâ has a title that grabs you from the paperback racks. It is a murder mystery about a serial killer and it is a real good one.

Make no mistake about it. This novel is excellent. Don't be fooled into thinking it is just another pulpy tale filled with the language and imagery of Southern noir.

The first part of the book is told from the killerâs point of view and it is quite a chilling point of view. Told in the most lushly pulpy way, it is reminiscent of the best of Gil Brewerâs Florida lust in the swamps tales. The killer explains that âBernice Struble thought she was playing the adultery game, but [he] taught her that it was only a variation of The Death Game.â Bernice is a lonely, horny housewife who while the husbandâs away, goes to town and sits there, smoking a cigarette, her lips âswollen and sensuous as they pursed and pulled on the white cylinderâ and her eyes âmoist and hot, measuring the men as they passed.â The narrator notes that, in five years, Bernice would be âcoarse and dumpy, but now she had no need to stretch and compress her flesh with latex and elastic. As she walked the town, he could see the âsoft rolling shape beneath Berniceâs dressâ and knew âshe was dealing it straight, letting you know in advance, and if you were disappointed later it was your own fault for not looking.â But, this portrait of this dame is not complete until the narrator finds her sitting in front of her house and asks if she wanted to take a ride. âPoor dumb broad, she had nothing working for her but an extra helping of hormones.â He explains that she had been sitting in her yard and it hadnât mattered who came by.

But what is most chilling here is not the narratorâs casual approach to adultery, but that, after killing her, he explained that he had only contempt for those who go out on a dark street and select a victim at random. Instead, this narrator is a professional, an expert, an artist, who is not crude and barbarous about killing. He works at his craft and he leaves few clues that it is even murder.

Most of the book is concerned with two folks in this small, homey little town who have picked up on the small clues â like the fact that there have been statistically way too many accidental deaths in this town. Velda runs the grocery and is a smart, clever woman. The other is Curt Friedland, who has been away for many years since his brother Frankie had been convicted of murder â the murder of Anne, Veldaâs sister, now dead twelve years. Amid small-town gossip, these two put together the clues.

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Title: The Brat

Author: Gil Brewer

Narrator: Graham Hamilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

She looked at the rotting, sun-blasted shack, the one room where they all lived, slept, made love, died. Looked at the dusty lawn where no grass grew. At the steaming swamp, at her tobacco-spitting mother. Saw the sly, lustful eyes of her fathers friends. Then she looked at her own lush beauty. Get me out of here, she prayed. Oh, please get me out of here! Ill pay any price.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars for a Top-Notch Pulp Story

Gil Brewer is one of my favorite pulp writers. His stories are easy to read and highly emotional. He is such a good writer that, as a reader, you are drawn into the story before you ever know it. Many of his stories have familiar pulp motifs such as the evil seductress, the man being framed for a murder he did not commit, a man on the run from the law. The Brat is no exception to this rule and has at its source a femme fatale from the Florida swamps, a creature from the swamp. The narrator explains that the first time he saw her "she was sitting on the edge of a deserted wharf. The warm swamp air was tugging at her thin cotton dress. She was a fused explosion, a direct hit. Everything about her was boldly evident. It was like being struck - hot and hard." This is

Evis. It is a story of greed and a story of obsession. It is, most of all, a damn good story.

Lee Sullivan's wife was killed in a car crash and he wandered around morose and dying inside and living off his savings until he met Evie in the Florida swamps. "A thick mop of ash-blonde hair. Long, tight roundings of thigh beneath scant, clinging white cotton." "it was like diving at her through the air. Nobody else around. No sound, save for the steadied and myriad swamp confusion. Like a dream, with the yes, yes, yes of her eyes and mouth and body under the too thin, too tight cotton - bare and ripe under the cotton." "Stranger, swamp-whore -- no matter what she was, I no longer cared. I had found her - and that did matter."

Evie was a backwoods girl and she was determined to get out. Sullivan wondered if she had fallen for him or if she would have fallen for anyone who had come along and been willing to take her out of there. They married and made a life in Tampa with Evie constantly wanting more, a bigger house, a nicer dress. He gets a job as a printer and she works for a savings and loan. Eventually, all they have isn't enough and Evie wants him to help her steal from the savings association. Sullivan wants to back out, but when he gets up from his drunk, she's gone. He explains that she was willful, overwrought, and he now knew crazy in a lot of ways. He had to reach her before she did this thing. "The little trigger in her brain that should scare her about the Law was missing. I loved her for that, too. I loved her, even knowing what she was."

And, at the savings association, he finds the president of the company shot, a note from Evie indicating he might stop by, and the gun wrapped up in Sullivan's jacket. "There was a round, blood-clotted hole in the side of his neck and he was dead."

Evie had set him up to take the fall and skeedaddled with $100,000 to the swamps and what's more she seems to have left with Sullivan's best friend in tow. "Right then," Sullivan explains, "maybe I died too.

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Title: 13 French Street

Author: Gil Brewer

Narrator: Joe Delafield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Alex came innocently into the house. His friend had a mysterious sickness. Alex did not know that the sickness was in a womans soul, and that he would almost die of it, too.

Members Reviews:

Nifty little noir

I'd read there's a French movie based on this book, but in my head, the book is populated by a little known cast acting their hearts out in a nifty little movie made on a Poverty Row back lot.

I would have preferred to give this 4 1/2 stars, but alas I can't. It's not perfect, but it packs a couple of surprises to this reader familiar with the pulp style of this book. So what if it's not "Double Indemnity."

"13 French Street" features a husband, a femme fatale, and a sap who comes to visit. Enough said. Any more would spoil the fun.

Gil Brewer's weakest work

Gil Brewer's 13 French Street is a predictably pessimistic tale of corruption, adultery and murder in a suburban household. Written in 1951, it was Brewer's first success, and sold a million copies over the course of eight printings. Brewer went on to be one of the key authors in the Gold Medal line, and developed a distinct and interesting voice as a writer.

However, as an early effort, 13 French Street, although one of his best-selling works, is also one of his worst.

The story begins on a (alas, not dark and stormy) night. Alex turns up at his friend Verne's door, a visit encouraged by Verne's wife, Petra. Although a surprise, Petra answers the door in her boobs...er... slinky black dress. Verne turns out to be an alcoholic wreck of a man. Although Verne blames his business struggles for his fragile emotional state, Alex quickly discerns that Verne simply isn't man enough for his wife and her spectacular boobs.

The tension between Petra and Alex is palpable. Alex can't get a drink of water without Petra chucking her rack at him, and a simple driving trip to town becomes an athletic exercise in thigh-pressing. Whatever tiny bit of resolve Alex possesses (and it isn't much) is quickly overwhelmed by the sheer force of Petra's attentions (boobs).

The descent into adultery and, eventually, murder is inevitable. Brewer doesn't try to avoid any conventions of the genre as much as wallow in them. Rather than any plot twists, his goal seems to be to horrify the reader by illustrating the shame and corruption of the situation.

Unfortunately, this strategy falls down in two places. First, the reader never actually empathizes with Alex, who is an uninteresting and unappealing character. Second, Brewer's own terse writing style is poorly suited for illustrating scenes of sweeping emotional despair. The author tries to illustrate Alex's forlorn state of mind and his bleak periods of self-loathing, but the attempts fail, bogged down by awkward, forced intensity.

There are a few redeeming moments - Alex has a few flashbacks of his war experiences with Verne that almost ignite a bit of reader empathy, and Verne's ghastly mother makes for a couple humorous scenes. But all goodwill is quickly extinguished the next time Petra walks into the room - a pair of boobs and some laughably sinister wiles.

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Title: A Real Gone Guy

Author: Frank Kane

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

She called herself Denny Lyons ... and she was everything men dreamed of on long, lonely nights ...She had it all, from the white-gold hair that framed her expensive face to the graceful, slender ankles - and all those pleasant extras in-between ...She had everything - including big ideas. She was headed straight for the top and she thought she knew just how to get there ...But she had made one mistake - and someone thought that was one too many...

Members Reviews:

Another Terrific Johnny Liddell Story

Frank Kane was one of the great writers of the great pulp era. He penned dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories for many of the well known mags such as Manhunt. Kane also wrote scripts for the Mike Hammer tv show. He is not to be confused with Henry Kane, another pulp writer. His original novels had great covers and unfortunately the most recent reprints from Prologue do not feature such. A Real Gone Guy is one of Kane's Johnny Lidell stories. Lidell was his tough-nosed private detective who worked out of midtown New York City. Lidell was not necessarily a cerebral PI. He liked to convince people to do the right thing with his fists as often as not. The Lidell novels written by Kane are all easy to read and before you know it you are too deep in the story to put it down. This book is no exception to this rule.

In A Real Gone Guy, Lidell is hired by a client he never meets. He doesn't even know her name. She calls him and offers him five hundred clams to solve a murder. Well, she is the only one who thinks its a murder. The police are convinced that they were called to a hotel room by an anonymous tip to catch a thief and killer and, once the bullets started flying, they got their guy. Unfortunately, by the time they nailed this guy, he had already gunned down one of their own. Needless to say, they are not too eager to reopen the investigation and Lidell's efforts to do so don't meet with much success.

Lidell is later called to a nightclub singer's apartment because she has information for him. He is knocked out the minute he goes inside and, when he awakens, she's dead and booze have been poured on Lidell to make it look like he did her. Lidell is on the run and has to solve this before he takes the fall for all the murders.

Its a good oldfashioned hard edged pulp PI novel and was great fun to read. I recommend all the Johnny Lidell books I have read so far. Not a bad one in the bunch.

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Title: Park Avenue Tramp

Author: Fletcher Flora

Narrator: Michael Kramer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

During one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo's and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player and a man with a bum heart. Yancy the bartender knows that she's trouble, a rich girl with an itch, but Joe won't listen. All he knows is that Charity wants to love him. But Charity has a husband Oliver Alton Farnese. Oliver is a creature of habit and allows Charity her flings. But when this fling turns serious, Oliver has his own way of dealing with the situation.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating

Would you consider the audio edition of Park Avenue Tramp to be better than the print version?

I have been reading all my life with my eyeballs. I have now made the discovery and transition to audio reading and never ever even bother to open a print book. I am not sure why this question is asked. There is only one answer. Yes, this book and every book.

What does Michael Kramer bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Let me reframe the question. What do the actors bring to a Broadway play that you would not experience if you just read the screenplay? Michael Kramer gave a performance based on a print book. He performed every word, every sentence and every syllable, acting several different parts, including a woman who was the primary character and he performed it flawlessly. Michael Kramer is the reason I bought the book. I know the kind of performance he delivers from other books I have heard him read. He did his same flawless work here.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes. I was riveted. Fortunately, it is a short book (written in 1958). I listened in every spare moment.

Any additional comments?

I recommend it. It is a fascinating read. Park Avenue Tramp.

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Title: With a Madman Behind Me

Author: Talmage Powell

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

This one was for keeps.

It started the night private eye Ed Rivers went to the rescue of a damsel in distress and almost ended up at the bottom of Tampa Bay.

Ed knew who was lurking behind him. His name was Russ Leppert. Russ liked to kill people. Not for any real reason - just because he liked it.

Then there was the man who had once been the business of hustling pornographic stag movies. He wanted to get back into the racket again, in a big way.

And, of course, the middle-aged Dixieland musician named Straight Stuff Delaney.

Was Straight Stuff blowing for kicks - or merely furnishing the fanfares for other murders to come?

Members Reviews:

Great Classic Pulp Detective Novel

Talmadge Powell wrote a number of pulp novels and stories in the late 50's & early 60's. Among his work are five novels featuring PI Ed Rivers, a tough hardhreaded bear of a man who worked out of an office in Tampa, partcularly Tampaâs Ybor City.

The story is well written and nicely paced. There are few if any wasted words. I picked up three of Powell's books last month and I wish I'd picked up several more.

The story begins with Rivers glancing out of his apartment window and spying a gorgeous scantily clad woman in another building. She was either beckoning him over or taking ill. In any case, Rivers investigates and ends up in a tangle with a crazed killer stalking him and the local syndicate looking to shut him down.

Terrific book filled with nonstop action. Highly recommended.

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Title: Night Raider

Author: Mike Barry

Narrator: Adam Epstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond love, even beyond hate. He's simply beyond giving the slightest damn whether he lives or dies, so long as he can kill the killers - thousands of them, all over American and all over the world. He is the lone wolf.

Members Reviews:

Tough as Nails and Crazy as a Loon

This is a real slice-of-the-70s hard-boiled pulp novel, pretty much one of the finest of the breed. It seems to be more firmly in the vein of TAXI DRIVER and the first DEATH WISH rather than later super-vigilantes like Mack Bolan and the Butcher. It follows the boilerplate for such things -- lone cop on the edge goes out on his own to seek revenge -- but it's remarkable in its refusal to make the protagonist seem heroic. Instead, Wulff is presented as basically having lost his mind, frequently referring to himself as "dead," living in flop houses, killing in cold blood, and succeeding in all this more by chance than by good planning.

So yes, it's unlikely that a guy could set a house on fire while locked in a basement room and survive it; the revolvers all somehow have safeties and are referred to as "point three eights"; but the plot moves along quickly and despite a few details is probably more easy to swallow in general than the usual one-many army easily wiping out armies of bad guys.

Highly recommended, and it's great to see these back in print at an affordable price.

Extremely good, tightly written vigilante novel

This is a cult series for a lot of hb fans, and it's a good thing that Prologue books has brought it back into print, as the original books are impossible to find.

This has the framework of a lot of men's adventure series from this period. Hero, ex Military and Narcotics officer, goes through a personal tragedy -- his girlfriend is found dead from an overdose -- and he decides to leave the force and pursue his own vengeance. And it's episodic the way these type of books often were -- the way it's structured is that our hero is following one thread systematically, and by the end of this book he's worked his way up to what I guess you'd call an "intelligence officer" for the Mob.

But this was written by Barry Malzberg (under a pseudonym), who's a genius, and he somewhere along the way evidently realized that this sort of character would be a seriously disturbed figure. And make no mistake, our protag is seriously disturbed, Malzberg does a great job with this guy's psychology, showing how unpleasant he really is. Yet the great thing about the book is that it still works like a men's adventure novel, you could conceivably read it and pick up on none of this. It's paced well and the action sequences are extremely well done (surprisingly so, truthfully I didn't think Malzberg had it in him). There's some deus ex machinas, of course, probably inevitable in a story like this, but Malzberg manages to shade those by giving them poetic weight. So, for instance, one bad guy's house is burnt down, symbolizing that this guy's life looked impressive but was built on nothing (Malzberg stresses how the house collapses *inward*). Etc.

Highly recommended, this manages to both work as a action novel and make me curious about where he plans to take the guy further.

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Title: Bombay Ice

Author: Leslie Forbes

Narrator: Susan OMalley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A dazzling novel of murder and monsoons, of poison and seduction, of long-buried secrets and lethal betrayals.

Rosalind Benegal is a BBC correspondent who has spent years distancing herself from surreal memories of a childhood spent in India. But lately her long-lost sister, Miranda, has taken to sending her cryptic postcards all the way from Bombay. In swirling script, Miranda claims shes being followed by a eunuch; she alludes to her childhood fear of water; she hints that her husband may have murdered his first wife. Mirandas dizzying missives compel Rosalind to do what she would never do on her own - return to the land of her birth, to the country that still haunts her after 20 years abroad.

Part literary thriller, part eloquent meditation on everything from the secret art of alchemy to the hidden lives of gangsters, artists, con men, prostitutes, and serial killers, Bombay Ice is rich with the heady atmosphere of India. It is an extraordinarily intelligent debut that captures the very essence of an exotic and fabled land.

About the author: Leslie Forbes has worked in London as a writer, artist, and broadcaster for over 20 years. She is the author of award-winning travel books, including A Table in Tuscany, winner of Italys Barbi-Colombini Prize for the best book on Italian food and culture.

Critic Reviews:

Lavish and sexyAn engrossing narrative, entertaining even when it meanders, and drenched with enough local color to tint the saris for the most extravagant Bollywood production number. (The New York Times Book Review)

A remarkable and clever debut. (Washington Post)

Bombay comes alive in these pagesWild, extravagantUnpredictable. (Newsday)

Members Reviews:

HORRIBLE Narration!

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

NO, This was the hardest book to get through -- the narrator's voice was monotone and awful. She ruined the book.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Susan OMalley?

Not sure, but not her.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Yes, the story line was good. Just poorly executed.

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Title: Liquid Smoke

Author: Jeffrey Shelby

Narrator: Seth Michael Donsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in his once tumultuous relationship with Detective Liz Santangelo and has called a tentative truce with his alcoholic mother, Carolina. So when lawyer Darcy Gill demands that he look into a hopeless death row case, he's more interested in catching some waves before San Diego's rare winter weather takes hold. Then Darcy plays her trump card: the man scheduled to die - convicted of killing two men in cold blood - is the father Noah never knew.

Members Reviews:

Liquid Smoke

Would you listen to Liquid Smoke again? Why?

No, but that's because don't have time to relisten to anything.

What did you like best about this story?

The fact that it was kindle unlimited AND came with the audio, that was great.

What does Seth Michael Donsky bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Well obviously the audio part was different and you can LITERALLY hear the characters, and it sort of reminded me of the Mike Hammer stories, which I liked on tv, particularly because could listen while doing something else.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

I have no idea.

Any additional comments?

Kindle Unlimited {lot of this writer's is no longer ku} AND this one came with audio as well. Overall liked the story telling and so on, did see some reviews {after read it} saying they didn't like the ending etc, well I don't like what happens/ending of a lot of stories even fairy tales but that is neither here nor there on whether it was a decent enough story. Felt it dragged in spots while sped up past others with not much detail, but maybe that was just me. Oh, as far as 'language' I don't' care, not when it's not obvious {out of place} so since didn't particularly notice any, it wasn't.

The third novel in the Noah Braddock series!

Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in his once tumultuous relationship with Detective Liz Santangelo and has called a tentative truce with his alcoholic mother, Carolina. So when lawyer Darcy Gill demands that he look into a hopeless death row case, he's more interested in catching some waves before San Diego's rare winter weather takes hold. Then Darcy plays her trump card: the man scheduled to dieconvicted of killing two men in cold bloodis the father Noah never knew.