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Old 08-07-2025, 06:50 PM   #8231
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The Gutter and the Grave is a stand-alone title by Ed McBain. Per SYKM, it is a "revised and restored version" of I’m Cannon—For Hire, originally written with pseudonym Curt Cannon. Whatever a "revised and restored version" is...

In any case, the Hard Case Crime edition is $1.99 in the US right now.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IHMBW0K
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-the-grave-ebk

Spoiler:
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A former PI returns to the field in this noir gem full of murder, deceit, and femme fatales—from the crime fiction legend whose 87th Precinct series set the benchmark for police procedurals.

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed—and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.

Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt’s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It’s just like the old days—only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end...
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