The Dead Don't Pay (Paperback or Softback)
Language: English
Published by Three Ravens Publishing 7/4/2025, 2025
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The Dead Don't Pay.
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- Title
- The Dead Don't Pay (Paperback or Softback)
- Author
- Donzella, James Arthur
- Publisher
- Three Ravens Publishing 7/4/2025
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback or Softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1966507445
- ISBN 13
- 9781966507444
- Item weight
- 0.7 pounds
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: Smoking Gun Collective
San Francisco, 1948. The war is over, but for James Wolf, the battle’s just begun. Once a star inspector with the San Francisco PD, now a gumshoe scraping by on whiskey and regrets, Wolf prowls the alleys and avenues of a city that forgot how to sleep.
When a routine case blows open like a shotgun blast—Corpses pile up, bullets fly, and everyone’s got something to hide—especially the client.
Double-crosses, dirty money, and a city choking on its own secrets— the only thing sharper than Wolf’s wit is the blade at his back.
Wolf’s in it up to his neck, and the only way out is through the blood and the lies… He’s got a .38 in his coat, a score to settle, and nothing left to lose.
The city’s about to learn: you don’t corner a wounded Wolf.
Reviews~
James A Donzella has managed to reinvent the noir detective novel with The Dead Don’t Pay. Aside from the refreshing paranormal twist, Donzella has impressive comedy writing chops and he’s not afraid to use them. All the things you love about the hardboiled noir poetry of Raymond Chandler can be found on every page.
~Robert Morgan Fisher - Winner of the Chester Himes and Montana Humor Prize.
James A Donzella puts the don in a flat foot’s donut in this noir murder mystery. Stylistic, crafty, surprising and fun. He puts the Zella in thrilla? Ok, I’m trying too hard. But Donzella makes it look easy because I couldn’t put it down.”
~ Gary Kroeger - Former child actor, adult movie star and SNL Alum.
As a fan of 40s and 50s private eye fiction, I appreciate what James Donzella has accomplished with his novel The Dead Don’t Pay. He has pretty much provided the reader a time machine for stepping back into a well-realized late 1940’s San Francisco and into the shoes of one James Wolf, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking private dick who gets involved in the usual convoluted tale of smuggling and murder after being hired by a classic femme fatale who is not what she claims to be. Told with the witty, sarcastic verve of a Raymond Chandler, coupled with the spare, masculine style of Ernest Hemmingway by way of Dragnet, The Dead Don’t Pay pulls you along through all the twists and turns to a didn’t-see-it-coming ending that should satisfy mystery fans everywhere.
~Thomas A. Swyden -TV Writer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess.
The Dead Don’t Pay is a fantastical ride down the dark alley of “film noir”. Mr. Donzella paints a magical world of days long past of the quintessential Private Dick, filled with great characters in a world of thugs, cops and sexy women. I couldn’t put it down. I put on some Dark Film Noir music from YouTube and I was transported back to the 1940s ala Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. As a “noir” fan I was enthralled and found myself feeling like I was actually in the story. “What’s gonna happen next? Keep reading!” Donzella’s book could be described as a love letter to San Francisco but even more so to the days of just damn good story telling! I could go on and on how much I loved this book!
~Frank Crim -Actor/Writer/Director/Producer – Los Angeles - Dexter, NCIS, Bosch, Dragnet, Criminal Minds.
“Hardboiled with cold-eyed characters and propulsive prose. The Dead Don’t Pay is a stunner of a debut by James Arthur Donzella.”
~Gary Phillips, author of the Harry Ingram Series.
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