William P McGivern

	The Big Heat - William P. McGivern 1953 English hardcover first edition, first impression published by Hamish Hamilton in London A VG+ book in VG+ unclipped dust jacket The book is clean and solid, tight binding and square No names or stamps etc The dustwrapper has tiny chip to one tip and light edge rubbing - looks very nice THE starting-off point of this story is fear: the fear that possessed both hunter and hunted. The scene was a large American city. A policeman had killed himself. It looked a routine case, nothing to get excited about, until the reports of his death were smothered by the authorities. Then a detective-serge am named Bannion became interested. There was too much that went beyond the evidence and remained unanswered. Without satisfactory explanation he was ordered off the case by his superiors. Officially, the file was closed, but by then it was two murders too late. Bannion gave in his badge and continued to work alone. What followed was something less than pleasant. An important book, adapted for film featuring Glenn Ford, won an Edgar perhaps the authors best work and a lovely copy For Sale at £57 (approx $90) *3a - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Rogue Cop - William McGivern 1955 UK hardback first edition, first impression published by Collins in London A VG++ book in VG+ unclipped dust jacket The book has neat previous owner name to front pastedown obscurred by front jacket flap The dust cover has light edge wear, clean and bright THE rogue cop was a good cop—smart, brave, experienced. But there was dirt on his hands. The dirt came from his association with the underworld —with Ackerman and other racketeers. These paid the rogue cop well for the cover-up jobs he did for them. Trouble came when they asked the rogue cop to stop his younger brother, Eddie, also on the force, from testifying against them in court. And when Eddie insisted on talking, a hired gangster shot him. A nice example and also the subject of a film by the same name starring Robert Taylor and Janet Leigh For Sale at £37 (approx $60) *3a - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart

About the Author William McGivern ~ Brief Biography William Peter McGivern (born 1918 and died 1982) was an American wrietr and TV scriptwriter. He penned over 20 books, mostly mysteries and crime thrillers, some under the pen name Bill Peters. His novels were adapted for a number of films William McGivern, an author new to English readers, has no illusions about the graft that can sometimes exist in his own country. Writing with great honesty and moving his narrative along at a terrific pace—the pace that we have come to expect from the better American semi-documentary crime films—he brings a new authority and suspense to the detective novel. He is not content to state the cold facts as they arc—his writing has undertones of another war, the war that is waged beyond the headlines. Without emulating the stale tricks of the so-called tough school, he gives a terrifying piclure of corruption. It will be long remembered, for its characterization as well as its story. For addicts of the superior crime thriller this is an introduction to an author of great power, who should not be missed.

Sample of the Author William McGivern's Work IT WAS eight o'clock at night when the phone rang. A detective lifted the receiver and said, 'Homicide, Neely speaking.' He listened a moment, frowning slightly through the smoke that curled up from the cigarette in his lips. 'All right, we'll send someone out right away,' he said. He put his cigarette on the edge of the scarred desk and picked up a pencil. 'What's your name and address?' he said. He put the cigarette back in his mouth and began writing on a pad at his elbow. There were three other detectives in the large, shabby, brightly lighted room. Two of them' were playing cards at a desk beside the long bank of green filing cases. The third, a tall, well-groomed man with a long, intelligent face, paced the floor with his hands clasped behind his back. On a bench just inside the wooden counter that ran the length of the room sat a uniformed patrolman and a Negro. The Negro, who was young and solidly built, seemed to be trying to shrink inside his cheap} brown suit. The card players stopped their game and glanced at Neely, who was frowning at the information he was taking down. One of them, a man named Carmody, with tired, sagging features and thinning hair, glanced at the windows. Rain was rolling down them in slow, level waves. 'You might know a job would come along,' he said. His partner, Katz, a big man with the roughed-up features of a preliminary fighter, shrugged. 'They always do on nights like this,' he said in a mild voice.

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