Bodies Are Dust (Staccato Crime 1)

Police Inspector Buck Safiotte is corrupt and cruel ruthless and remorseless ambitious and outrageous ruling the streets of New York City like a monarch of the gutter. One early reader of Bodies Are Dust fretted that the book was too vicious for the library but this almost-forgotten impossible-to-find novel has become a classic and noir fans consider their copies precious. Now after more than 60 years out of print Bodies Are Dust is available again the first title from Staccato Crime a new imprint of Stark House Press which will resurrect noir classics both novels and true crime originally published 1899-1939.