
Sleep with the Devil
By Day Keene
1954
First Published
4.07
Average Rating
130
Number of Pages
Ferron was big, tough and ruthless—he'd break your arm as soon as look at you. He had the morals of a tomcat and the instincts of a rattlesnake. But Ferron was sitting pretty. In New York City he had Lydia—a gorgeous redhead who loved him to distraction. Upstate he had Amy—lovely, virginal and wealthy; she could hardly wait till they were married. In the trunk of his battered car he had one hundred thousand dollars. —And he had literally gotten away with murder! Ferron was very lucky. Then his world started to come apart at the seams with shattering suddenness ...
Avg Rating
4.07
Number of Ratings
67
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
13%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
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Day Keene
Author · 14 books
Day Keene, whose real name was Gunnar Hjerstedt, was one of the leading paperback mystery writers of the 1950s. Along with writing over 50 novels, he also wrote for radio, television, movies, and pulp magazines. Often his stories were set in South Florida or swamp towns in Louisiana, and included a man wrongly accused and on the run, determined to clear his name.