Bring Me Another Corpse

Daniel Port #5

by Peter Rabe

A former syndicate operative is being set up to be killed, but what secret does he have that keeps him alive?

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Peter Rabe aka Peter Rabinowitsch, was a German American writer who also used the nom de plumes Marco Malaponte and J.T. MacCargo (though not all of the latter's books were by him). Rabe was the author of over 30 books, mostly of crime fiction, published between 1955 and 1975.

Reviews

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

In the fifth novel in Rabe’s Daniel Port saga, Bring Me Another Corpse, Rabe continues the theme of a hard gangster who successfully walked away from the life, only to find there’s no escape anywhere. Port is grazed by a bullet as he stops in Albany, only to find himself in the hands of federal agents who want him to impersonate a killer for hire, with Port being the target.

The story takes place primarily in Cleveland with Port, pretending to be the guy who wants to kill Port, trying to get an in with the local organization to find the headman if one even exists. It becomes a trick to keep his real identity quiet as he infiltrates the local mob with the feds butting their noses in and a local cigarette girl who is passed around the mob figuring it out but not knowing anything about what it means.

Rabe does a great job of capturing the feel of the situation and his dialogue seems quite on the mark.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bring Me Another Corpse (1959) This is the first Daniel Port “mystery” I’ve read by Peter Rabe, and it’s not bad. It’s very close to his organized crime novels in that Daniel Port is a former hood who went straight. I don’t know if he’s a detective in the series but this is about the Feds exploiting his old organized crime connections and enmities. Nicely written and well paced.