Richard Stark's taut The Score (1964), in which the master thief Parker plots the looting of an entire city with the cool precision of an expert mechanic.Hughes's The Expendable Man (1963), an unsettling tale of racism and wrongful accusation in the American Southwest. Charles Williams's Dead Calm (1963), a masterful novel of natural peril and human evil on the high seas.Marlowe's terrifying The Name of the Game Is Death (1962), about a nihilistic career criminal on the run Fredric Brown's The Murderers (1961), a darkly comic look at a murderous plot hatched on the hip fringes of Hollywood.Here are nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade: In the 1960s a number of gifted writers-some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers-reimagined American crime fiction. Here in two volumes are nine timeless novels, including four lost classics now restored to print. Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s.
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