The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes

<p>A truck driver employed by Murdock Motor Freight Bookie Barnes is a tough working class hero. Though not a detective per se he is a rough customer described as tall heavy-chested with a build you see only in physical culture ads and though barely twenty-six he'd been on the trucks for three years. He is emblematic of the type of crime fighters found in pulp fiction in that he represents the typical readership of pulp fiction: an average working-class audience. </p><p><br></p><p>Written by one of the greats of the detective pulps Robert Reeves-who was tragically killed in World War II-this book collects all of his Bookie Barnes stories: Murder in High Gear Over a Barrel and Murder Without Death as well as his lone non-series character story Dance Macabre.</p><p><br></p>