Night of the Horns / Cry Wolfram (Stark House Mystery Classics) - Softcover

Sanderson, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933586729 ISBN 13: 9781933586724

Publisher: Stark House Press, 2015

Synopsis

Sanderson isn’t well known but he should be. He wrote a series of white hot thrillers in the 1950s which were published under his two pseudonyms, Martin Brett and Malcolm Douglas. But he also published a good many novels under his own name, and Stark House is proud to reprint two of them, the first a seedy tale of a Southern California lawyer whose life is ripped apart when he agrees to do a job for a racketeer, the second the story of cross-and-double-cross affair that takes place on the coast of Spain.

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From the Inside Flap:

NIGHT OF THE HORNS Lawyer Robert Race has always been a straight-arrow guy, taking on underdog cases against all odds. He believes in his client's innocence. But one night his confidence is shattered when racketeer Kresnik forces him to collect a suitcase at the docks, and Race stumbles into a world he didn't know existed. He runs into his old flame, Ginny, who for some reason now despises him. He is confronted by his neighbor Paul Taylor's wife, Laura, who confesses that her husband has been having an affair with Race's wife, Eve, right under his nose. His protégé, Tony Fontaine, has been acting strange, and even his father-in-law, Sam Alford, taunts Race that he has been living with his head in the sand. Tonight Race learns a lot about his life. But his trip to the docks is only the beginning. Soon his life is completely turned upside down—because tonight he finds himself on the lam for murder! CRY WOLFRAM John Molson is an expatriate American living in France where he is currently bodyguard to an old millionaire named Craddock. Life is good. He's got a new girl named Julie. What does it matter that she keeps warning him about her brother, while spending the evening hovering over that suave bastard, Roger Lascelles? If it isn't love, it's the next best thing. But Molson's reverie is shattered when Craddock announces they are driving down to Spain where there's a deal to be finalized involving some lucrative mining rights. No sooner do they arrive but Craddock is murdered, Molson is framed, and every unsavory character in town is after him—Colonel Parker, dangerous double-crosser; Chivas, Craddock's rival; Vidal, sadistic chief of police, Luiz Hernandez, disgraced bullfighter—and most dangerous of all, sweet Louise, who holds the key to the whole deal!

About the Author:

Ronald Douglas Sanderson was born in Kent, England, in 1920, emigrating to Canada in 1947 after a stint with the Merchant Navy and the R.A.F during WWII. In Montreal, he worked in a Kellogg’s factory, as a jewelry salesman and as a cabaret singer, before publishing his first literary novel, Dark Passions Subdue, in 1952. Drawing inspiration from Mickey Spillane, Sanderson developed a leaner style and started writing hardboiled mysteries under the names Martin Brett and Malcolm Douglas. He left Canada in the early 50s, traveled around the U.S. and Europe, and eventually settled in Spain, where he married and had a son. Sanderson published nearly 25 thrillers in his lifetime, three of which were only published in France, where he enjoyed more popularity than the U.S. He died in Alicante, Spain, in 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stark House Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1933586729
• ISBN 13: 9781933586724
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262