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Baby Moll (Hard Case Crime #46)
by
John Farris
NO MAN ESCAPES THE SINS OF HIS PAST
Six years after quitting the Florida Mob, Peter Mallory is about to be dragged back in.
Stalked by a vicious killer and losing his hold on power, Mallory’s old boss needs help – the kind of help only a man like Mallory can provide. But behind the walls of the fenced-in island compound he once called home, Mallory is about to find himself s...more
Six years after quitting the Florida Mob, Peter Mallory is about to be dragged back in.
Stalked by a vicious killer and losing his hold on power, Mallory’s old boss needs help – the kind of help only a man like Mallory can provide. But behind the walls of the fenced-in island compound he once called home, Mallory is about to find himself s...more
ebook, 224 pages
Published
May 11th 2011
by Hard Case Crime
(first published 1958)
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Peter Mallory thought he'd left his life of crime behind six years ago but a week before his wedding, he's pulled back in. Mallory has to figure out who's trying to kill his old boss in order to keep his fiancee from finding out about his criminal past. But what do the killings have to do with a family being killed in an inferno years earlier?
As I've mentioned before, the Hard Case Crime series has some duds in it, most of them from around the time this one was published. Fortunately, Baby Moll...more
As I've mentioned before, the Hard Case Crime series has some duds in it, most of them from around the time this one was published. Fortunately, Baby Moll...more
I'm getting in the swing of the Hard Case Crime books. They are much more violent and more comic book-like than the usual books I read, but I find them kind of fun. We never get to know the characters too deeply so what comes to the fore is the action. Old-time gangster action. The writers for this series are clearly having a good time.
Pete Mallory has cut his ties with the mob. He has a woman he loves, and they are engaged to be married. Pete is ready to live a normal life . . . that is, until his old boss blackmails him into doing one last job . . . etc., etc., etc. Competent but forgettable. As with quite a few Hard Case Crime reprints, it is difficult to figure why this one was deemed worthy of rescue from oblivion.
This novel is definitey on the better side of three stars. While I do not necessarily enjoy the theme of the mob and how you're "in for life" or whatever, the darker sides here of revenge at all costs does sort of make up for the all-to-easy Godfather-style stuff.
First Hard Case Crime published book I read. Opened the door so, so smoothly...
Nov 01, 2008
Andy
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
wife-swapping gangsters
Shelves:
hard-case-crime
Never mind the terrible title or lousy cover, this is an excellent crime novel. It's a twist on the classic whodunit mystery: instead of unraveling who the evil killer is, it's who's vindictively killing off the gangsters that killed someone's parents 15 years ago in a fire.
The gangsters in question are all living in a Rat Pack-style swinging compound complete with unfaithful wives sexing down with each others' husbands and even with rival racketeers. There's more sex than violence in this book...more
The gangsters in question are all living in a Rat Pack-style swinging compound complete with unfaithful wives sexing down with each others' husbands and even with rival racketeers. There's more sex than violence in this book...more
Entertaining hardboiled crime fiction.
Hard Case Crime #46
Pulpy fun.
Oct 28, 2008
Five
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
hard_case_crime,
crime_fiction
There's a few nice twists in this well-paced novel about an ex-gangster turned straight who is called back to protect the leader of a crumbling organized-crime syndicate from an unknown assailant avenging a 20-year-old hit. Quite enjoyable.
Ehh. Forgettable Florida noir with nothing particular to recommend it. A couple of bits of funny, offbeat dialogue, but it's by-the-numbers in conception and execution. Not a book I gave a second thought to even while I was reading it.
Apr 02, 2013
Scott E
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
read-crime-fiction,
own-crime-thrillers
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American writer and screenwriter of both adaptations of his own books (e.g. 'The Fury'), of the works of others (such as Alfred Bester's 'The Demolished Man') and original scripts. In 1973 he wrote and directed the film 'Dear Dead Delilah'. He has had several plays produced off-Broadway, and also paints and writes poetry. At various times he has made his home in New York, Southern California and P...more
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