Underground Reading: A Touch of Death by Charles Williams

This is the latest installment in our scheme to review each and every Hard Case Crime publication, one every week.You can follow along here.

A Touch of Death (2006) was first published in 1954. Like many of Charles Williams' other books, it first appeared as a Gold Medal paperback. Although commercially and critically successful during his lifetime, Williams is now almost entirely out of print - both Joe Lansdale and John D. MacDonald have referred to him as one of the most "neglected" write...