The Golden Girl and All

<b>The third novel in Ralph Dennis' great but hard-to-find 1970s detective series that's been sought-after for decades by readers of the very best in crime fiction.</b><p><p>Jim Hardman was an Atlanta cop until he was wrongly accused of corruption and thrown off the force. Now he works as an unlicensed PI trouble-shooter and bodyguard...often partnered with his drinking buddy Hump Evans a black ex-NFL player who supports his playboy lifestyle by working as hired muscle.<p><p>Hardman is hired to find Peggy Holt a drug dealer stripper and serial seductress who has kidnapped her six-year-old daughter from her ex-husband. Peggy has disappeared into an Atlanta underworld populated by the dirty cops crooked lawyers and violent mobsters that she's bedded and betrayed...and who keep coming back for more. <p><p>The only way Hardman can find her is to follow the trail of corpses that she's left in her wake... without becoming one himself. <p><p>This edition includes an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale and an afterword by Richard A. Moore.<p><p><b>Praise for the HARDMAN novels</b>:Like Chandler and Hammett before him Dennis was trying to do something different with what was thought of as throwaway literature. Joe R. Lansdale from his introduction<p><p>Among the best series books around. The dialogue is marvelously realistic. Philadelphia Daily News<p>