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Bare Trap
When Private Eye Johnny Liddell moves his base of operations to Hollywood, he uncovers more dirt than a gossip columnist on a party line.
First there’s a movie mogul’s adopted son, with plenty of money, but living in constant fear of death.
Then there’s a bevy of beauties, all connected with the unlucky lad, but perfectly willing to play the scene with Johnny as well.
Then there’s murder - raw and ugly - that forces Liddell to walk the tightrope between the killers and the cops.
It all adds up to another fast, smooth job by Frank Kane.
First there’s a movie mogul’s adopted son, with plenty of money, but living in constant fear of death.
Then there’s a bevy of beauties, all connected with the unlucky lad, but perfectly willing to play the scene with Johnny as well.
Then there’s murder - raw and ugly - that forces Liddell to walk the tightrope between the killers and the cops.
It all adds up to another fast, smooth job by Frank Kane.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 15, 2012
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Frank Kane
218 books10 followersFrank Kane, Brooklyn-born and a lifetime New Yorker, worked for many years in journalism and corporate public relations before shifting to fiction writing. At the time he was selling crime stories to the pulps he was also sustaining a career writing scripts for such radio shows as Gangbusters and The Shadow.
In addition to the Johnny Liddells, Kane wrote several suspense novels, some softcore erotica, and (under the pen name of Frank Boyd) "Johnny Staccato", a Gold Medal original paperback based on the short-lived noir television series, starring John Cassavetes, about a Greenwich Village bebop pianist turned private detective.
In addition to the Johnny Liddells, Kane wrote several suspense novels, some softcore erotica, and (under the pen name of Frank Boyd) "Johnny Staccato", a Gold Medal original paperback based on the short-lived noir television series, starring John Cassavetes, about a Greenwich Village bebop pianist turned private detective.
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January 12, 2019
Hollywood Gossip, Gambling Syndicates, Beauty Queens
Bare Trap is the sixth book in the long-running Johnny Liddell private eye series. At 192 pages, it's one of the longer books in the series. It's a story of a corrupt Hollywood filled with gold diggers, blackmailers, desperate studio executives, compulsive gamblers, all-powerful gossip columnists, hoods, stacked blondes, and murder.
It's also a terrific fast-paced, action-packed detective story that takes Liddell from his New York haunts to the west coast where he takes on a client as a favor to Muggsy, his sometimes girlfriend and ace reporter pal. Typical of most private eyes of the era, Liddell tries to work the case on his own and gets mixed up in gun battles, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder frames.
Kane manages to make old Hollywood come alive in all its cynical, jaded glory with gossip everywhere and ex-beauty queens working reception.
One of the best of the Liddell series.
Bare Trap is the sixth book in the long-running Johnny Liddell private eye series. At 192 pages, it's one of the longer books in the series. It's a story of a corrupt Hollywood filled with gold diggers, blackmailers, desperate studio executives, compulsive gamblers, all-powerful gossip columnists, hoods, stacked blondes, and murder.
It's also a terrific fast-paced, action-packed detective story that takes Liddell from his New York haunts to the west coast where he takes on a client as a favor to Muggsy, his sometimes girlfriend and ace reporter pal. Typical of most private eyes of the era, Liddell tries to work the case on his own and gets mixed up in gun battles, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder frames.
Kane manages to make old Hollywood come alive in all its cynical, jaded glory with gossip everywhere and ex-beauty queens working reception.
One of the best of the Liddell series.
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