Frank Kane, Brooklyn-born and a lifetime New Yorker, worked for many years in journalism and corporate public relations before shifting to fiction writing. At the time he was selling crime stories to the pulps he was also sustaining a career writing scripts for such radio shows as Gangbusters and The Shadow. In addition to the Johnny Liddells, Kane wrote several suspense novels, some softcore erotica, and (under the pen name of Frank Boyd) "Johnny Staccato", a Gold Medal original paperback based on the short-lived noir television series, starring John Cassavetes, about a Greenwich Village bebop pianist turned private detective.
Series
Books
Maid in Paris
1966
Johnny Come Lately
A Johnny Liddell Mystery
1963
Crime of Their Life
1962
Two to Tangle
1965
The Mourning After & The Confession
2017
Red Hot Ice
1955
Fatal Undertaking
1964
Ring-a-Ding-Ding
1963
A Short Bier
1960
Mike Shayne's Torrid Twelve
1961
Esprit De Corpse
1965
Slay Ride
1950
Time to Prey
1966
Hearse Class Male
1963
Green Light for Death
1949
Frame
A Johnny Liddell Mystery
1956
The Living End
1957
The Fatal Foursome
1947
Due Or Die
1961
Final Curtain
1964
Grave Danger
1954
In the Shadow of Papillon
Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System
2006
Johnny Liddell Mysteries
Due or Die; The Mourning After; Dead Rite
2019
Johnny Liddell's Morgue
1956
Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python
Real-world examples to help you analyze large datasets with Apache Spark
2017
The Mourning After
A Johnny Liddell Thriller
1964
Bare Trap
1952
Trigger Mortis
1957
Johnny Liddell Thrillers
Crime of their Life; Ring-a-Ding-Ding; Hearse Class Male
2020
Bullet Proof
1951
Stacked Deck
1961
Dead Weight
1951
A Real Gone Guy
1956
The Icepick Artists
1953
Poisons Unknown
1953
The Guilt Edged Frame
1964
Margin for Terror
1967
