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

Red Hot Ice
1955

Fatal Undertaking
1964

A Short Bier
1960

Mike Shayne's Torrid Twelve
1961

Slay Ride
1950

Time to Prey
1966

Hearse Class Male
1963

Green Light for Death
1949

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'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

Bare Trap
1952

Trigger Mortis
1957

Bullet Proof
1951

Stacked Deck
1961

Dead Weight
1951

A Real Gone Guy
1956

Poisons Unknown
1953

The Guilt Edged Frame
1964

Margin for Terror
1967