Hide-Out / I Get What I Want

Heller, Lorenz

ISBN 10: 1951473159 / ISBN 13: 9781951473150

Published by Stark House Press, Eureka, CA, 2020

About this Item

Reprint. Trade PB in illustrated \wraps. Fine and unmarked. 265pp. 266 p.

Seller Inventory # 042158

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hide-Out / I Get What I Want
• Publisher: Stark House Press, Eureka, CA
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1951473159
• ISBN 13: 9781951473150
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery

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Synopsis

HIDE-OUTGangster Lew Markey knows when it’s time to lay low, and with all the racketeering investigations going on, he figures he’s a lot safer in Florida. He’s got the perfect hide-out—no one gets in, or out. But Lew needs company, and he brings with him his watchdogs Vito and Yutsy, plus his lawyer, Harry Joyce, for intelligent conversation, and wise-cracking Goff to act as butler and maid. And there’s his wife, Josie, of course, and her sister Nellie, who he plans to pair up with his brother Ozzie. But Harry and Nellie have other plans. Trouble is, they are locked behind Lew’s iron gates, with no telephone, 20 miles from the nearest town. It’s the perfect hide-out alright, and the perfect set-up for violence, hate—and death. I GET WHAT I WANTWhen Jeff Tucker first spots Letty on the dock, he knows he has to have her. It’s love at first sight. But Letty is nothing but trouble, a fiery woman with a red-hot temper. And her uncle, a huge guy named Buster, is something else again. Jeff knows that Buster is trouble. First they hire Jeff to take them out in his boat. Then Buster suggests that maybe Jeff would like to get involved in some Cuban liquor smuggling. It’s Letty that Jeff wants, but Buster is part of the package. So when the two of them leave town suddenly, and return a few days later with a man who has been shot in the shoulder—wanting to hold up in his cabin, no cops involved—Jeff knows he’s going to have to go through Hell to get her.

About the Author

Lorenz F. Heller was born in West Hoboken, New Jersey on October 5, 1910, studied journalism at Rutgers and worked on various New Jersey newspapers. He then ran away to sea and became an able seaman on a freighter before jumping ship and returning to start writing fiction. Heller published his first novel, Murder in Make-Up, in 1937 and continued to write under a variety of names, including Frederick Lorenz, Laura Hale, Larry Heller, Lorenz Heller and Larry Holden, working with publishers like Pyramid, Popular Library, Beacon and Eton Books. He also wrote TV scripts under the name Burt Sims. As Frederick Lorenz he turned out seven sharp crime novels for Lion Books in the 1950s. As Larry Holden he published three crime novels and nearly 100 stories, several of them featuring private eye Dinny Keogh. Heller eventually settled in the Venice, Florida area where he supported himself entirely on his writing. He died on December 12, 1965.