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Enter Without Desire: A Vintage Noir Crime Novel
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515426219
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A tough, fast-moving noir novel of temptation, pressure, and bad choices, Enter Without Desire shows Ed Lacy working in the lean paperback-original tradition of mid-century American crime fiction.
In Enter Without Desire, ordinary life gives way to danger, suspicion, and moral compromise. Lacy's world is one where desire is rarely innocent, money sharpens every weakness, and men and women under pressure discover how quickly caution can collapse. The novel moves with the blunt speed of 1950s paperback crime: direct prose, hard choices, emotional heat, and the steady sense that one wrong move may close every exit.
First published by Avon in 1954, Enter Without Desire belongs to the early run of Ed Lacy's paperback originals, written before his Edgar-winning Room to Swing brought wider recognition. It is the kind of compact crime novel that made the paperback era so commercially powerful: short, sharp, unsentimental, and built around people who are already too deep in trouble before they understand the cost.
This Black Curtain Books edition is suited to readers of vintage noir, hard-boiled crime fiction, paperback originals, mid-century American suspense, and the darker tradition of crime novels driven by appetite, fear, and consequence.
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