The Big Kiss-Off
By Day Keene
1954
First Published
3.78
Average Rating
222
Number of Pages
Cade Cain was back in town after two years in a Communist prison camp. His first night home he’d been beaten by a sadistic hoodlum and warned to get out of town fast. Now someone had planted a bullet-riddled corpse on his doorstep. Three people in town hated him - his greedy ex-wife, her wheeler-dealer boyfriend, and the big muscle man in the local mafia. But which of them ordered murder - and signed Cade’s name to the tab?
Avg Rating
3.78
Number of Ratings
27
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
44%
3 STARS
33%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
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.
