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10 Books by W. R. Burnett
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Overview: William Riley Burnett (1899 - 1982), often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel, Little Caesar, whose film adaptation is considered the first of the classic American gangster movies.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Suspense



Dark Hazard (1933)
Dark Hazard is a greyhound race dog, but the novel is written from the perspective of the character of Jim Turner, starting in 1928, and going through 1932. Jim's marriage to Marg, their life in Chicago, then California, their families, including their family history - all what one would expect. Siblings who died in the Great War [remembering that WW11 had not even occurred at this time] or the flu [remembering the epidemic].

High Sierra (1929)
The plot of High Sierra is remorselessly fast and multithreaded, but Roy Earle trumps our interest. Burnett manage to pain a rich and deeply compelling man without sentimentalizing him. Here is a plot with a tough, bleak, and unforgiving narrative that works a dark magic.

Iron Man (1930) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2017)
Coke Mason, who slugs his way up to the championship in the middleweight division, is one of the most appealing fictional figures of the year. The author is well aware of those aspects of his plodding hero which are ridiculous and laughable but his object is not one of mockery. This is a tender treatment of the abysmal brute. Yet the book does not ever slop over into sentimentality. The happy phrase, a ‘hardboiled sentimentalist,’ which was applied to Hemingway, will fit Burnett in this instance.

Nobody Lives Forever (1943) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2014)
The gang gathers—from New York, from California and Florida—and the ace con man of them all sets out to take a lovely lady for a romantic ride.
So begins this terse and terrifying record of crime and punishment . . .

Protection (1931) (ed. Jerry eBooks 2016)
Francis Harworth, Chicago restaurant and night-club owner, falls in love with Helen Magnussen, divorced wife of a man of great wealth. Harworth is well-to-do; he is not rich. To hold Helen, he must (so he believes) have more money. He gets it by allying himself, an honest man, with Joe Molina, a racketeer.

Round Trip (1929) Short Story
The ‘twenties in America saw the rapid emergence of an entirely new form of criminal: the gangster. These ruthless villains, who ruled by the machine-gun, took a stranglehold on vice, gambling and bootlegging in the biggest cities of the USA. The most notorious was undoubtedly Al Capone, nicknamed ‘Scarface’, who graduated from petty crime to controlling all the rackets in Chicago, with most of the local police and politicians on his payroll. His ruthless disposal of enemies and rebel gangsters was legendary. In Britain, the only real rivals to Capone were the Kray twins, Reginald and Ronald, whose ‘firm’ ran the London underworld in the ‘sixties with a similar mixture of threats, violence and murder.

The Asphalt Jungle (1949)
W.R. Burnett's brutally wise novel The Asphalt Jungle (1949) tells how the perfect crime can go easily awry when human nature is a factor, as it always is. Told in short, richly atmospheric chapters, the novel details the planning and execution of a major jewel heist. The robbery is devised by Doc Reimenschneider, a master criminal who has just been released from prison and will require the involvement of a number of people--including the muscle and itinerant hood named Dix, an overgrown country boy, andthe fence, a successful but sleazy lawyer named Alonzo Emmerich. The cast of characters will ultimately be the scheme's very downfall in an atmosphere rife with suspicion and double-crossing. The spelling out of the planning in The Asphalt Jungle is fascinating, but what truly grips the audience is the people who are involved and why they come to this point and what the chemistry of the situation does to them. The point of view shifts throughout the novel, providing surprising and deep insights into the characters and our culture at large. The Asphalt Jungle finds an "honest man" in Dix, the petty crook, who in his own way is as decent as the so-called "good guys," the commissioner and the reporter. A man who always seems out of his element, Dix longs to leave the rat race and return to the country setting of his childhood. With that in mind, Dix undertakes involvement in the heist, believing this is the way to make his dream a reality. He comes close--painfully, wistfully close, with punishing irony.

The Giant Swing (1932)
This exciting new novel is like some of Mr. Burnett’s earlier books, except in the vigor of his writing and the truly American flavor of its people and their problems.
Joe Nearing played the piano over at The Park. From the platform where he sat he could see “Spanish” Strapp shouldering his way through the crowd of little shopgirls and hard guys waiting for the next dance.
Spanish could whip any man in The Park, and Joe Nearing knew it. Joe could see that the only way to get anywhere was to be like Spanish, shrewd and brutal, and a sure hand with the ladies, but somehow he wasn’t built that way.
Nobody seemed to have any use for Joe. Finally they ran him out of town.
Eventually Joe came back to Middleburg. He had to come back. What he saw and what he had learned make the climax of this story.

The Goldseekers (1962)
Jim and Hoxie meet the Old Man in a Seattle bar. He’s fought in the Civil War and the Mexican War. The Old Man has been around. He’s even been to Alaska. Took out $35,000 in gold dust ten years back, and spent it on women and high living. Now it’s time to go back and find the real cache he knows is still up there. All he needs are a couple more partners, fellow investors to help pay for the food and equipment they’ll need for a tough winter near the Arctic Circle.
Once Jim agrees, Hoxie is in. After all, they’re two Ohio boys looking for adventure. Why not? And soon young Lloyd—son of the rooming-house family they’re living with—decides to join them, bound and determined to find his own independence. But none of them figure on the struggles it will take them just to get to the Yukon—nor the grit it will take to stay.

Vanity Row (1952)
When Frank Hobart, nationally known lawyer, millionaire, and Administration favorite, was shot down in the street, it was Captain Roy Hargis--the Hangman, the Administration's private gunman--who was called in to keep the public from discovering Hobart's connection with the out-of-town wire services and to find a sitting duck to take the rap. He thought that he had one when Joe Sert put the finger on Ilona Vance, but what happened next was only to prove how dangerous a beautiful woman can be even to a tough, ruthless, unscrupulous, and unemotional cop used to walking a highwire with no net beneath him. Here is another swift, tense, spellbinding story of big-city corruption by an author who knows his way around the dark byways of crime and the criminal mind and who knows how to tell a story of suspense and action and make it utterly convincing.

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