Murder Me for Nickels / Benny Muscles In - Softcover

Rabe, Peter; Westlake, Donald E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974943843 ISBN 13: 9780974943848

Publisher: Stark House Press, 2004

Synopsis

MURDER ME FOR NICKELS Walter Lippit makes music all over town. He owns the juke boxes that play the tunes that keeps the bars and the diners hopping. Jack St. Louis works for Lippit, smoothing the customers and keeping the nickels coming. But then along comes Benotti and the Chicago syndicate to louse up the operation. It's everything Jack can do to stay one step ahead. One step ahead of Benotti's gang, Lippet--and Lippit's willing wife Patty, who wants to be a singer and is convinced that Jack can make that happen too. And maybe he can. It's all in a week's work. BENNY MUSCLES IN Benny Tapkow has worked as crime boss Pendleton's chauffeur for seven years, but he's itching to get ahead. He feels like he deserves a piece of the action, but Pendleton won't budge. So Benny strikes a deal with Big Al Alverato to kidnap Pendleton's daughter Pat to get him in with the rival gang. But the snatch doesn't come off as planned, and now Benny is stuck with Pat, a hellion with a temper and plenty of mood swings. Pendleton's men are after him and he has to dope her just to keep her in line. The last thing he figured on was falling in love.

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Review:

"Along with John D. MacDonald and Charles Williams, he was one of Gold Medal's Holy Trinity. When he was rolling, crime fiction just didn't get any better." -Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene "Rabe is a sensation in the rough, tough, murder field." -Albany Democrat Herald "His novels attain an intensity and effectiveness seldom achieved by many better-known writers. . . Few writers are Rabe's equal in the field of the hardboiled gangster story." -Bill Crider, Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers

About the Author:

Peter Rabe was born in Germany as Peter Rabinowitsch in 1921, immigrating to the U.S. with his brother in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He enrolled at Ohio State University and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Western Reserve in Cleveland. Married, he began his writing career by turning in a humorous story about the birth of his first son. Soon after, he began submitting hardboiled stories to Gold Medal where he found an enthusiastic editor and a ready market. After three divorces, health problems and the death of the paperback original, Rabe eventually quit writing and took up teaching psychology at California Polytechnic State University in the late 60's. He died in 1990 at his home in Atascadero, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stark House Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0974943843
• ISBN 13: 9780974943848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302