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Alley Girl
1954
First Published
3.69
Average Rating
148
Number of Pages

Renegade Cop (originally published as Alley Girl) is a hardboiled noir story about Steve Lambert, a renegade cop. He's got a guy in jail as a material witness, when someone offers him $5000 to get the guy convicted. He's happy to do it, but he wants $20,000. He's also banging the guy's wife, who submits in the hope that he'll get her husband freed. And that's just for starters. Lambert is one bad dude. Craig takes pains to show that not all cops are like Lambert, but of course Lambert's the interesting one. Craig also had his copy of Psychopathia Sexualis open when he was writing this one. There's some kinky stuff, along with some very '50s attitudes that are now very un-PC. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Avg Rating
3.69
Number of Ratings
68
5 STARS
22%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
28%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
4%
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Author

Jonathan Craig
Author · 4 books
Jonathan Craig was a pseudonym for Frank E. Smith, an American writer who lived in Florida. His series character for most of his novels was PI Pete Selby. He also wrote many short stories.
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