Author: Charles Williams
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Mystery, Crime, Noir, Fiction
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Original title: HELL HATH NO FURY. Now known as: THE HOT SPOT.
A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony.
Maddox wasn't all bad. He was just half-bad. But trap a man like Maddox in a dead-end job in a stultifying small town, introduce him to a femme fatale like the Harshaw woman, and give him a shot at a fast fifteen thousand dollars--in a bank just begging to be knocked over--and his better nature doesn't stand a chance.
Merciless in its suspense, flawless in its grasp of the ways in which ordinary people hurtle over the edge, The Hot Spot is a superb example of fifties roman noir.
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