Hard Case Crime discussion

Night Walker by Donald Hamilton is, I think, HCC #16. (I don't see where they're numbered, so let me know & I'll edit this post.)

I finished it today. A pretty good murder mystery story published in 1954, so it used the Commie Spy & McCarthy era paranoia as the main plot of the story.

Some coincidence is used, but more sparingly than I thought at first. The ending was good, too. It's a believable yarn with no super heroes, just ordinary people. I could really identify with the main character & understood the few others well, too. All motivations were quite believable.

Well worth the read, although not as good as his Matt Helm books.