Book description
Cade Cain was back in town after two years in a Communist prison
camp. His first night home he'd been beaten by a sadistic hoodlum and
warned to get out of town fast. Now someone had planted a
bullet-riddled corpse on his doorstep.
Three people in town hated him - his greedy ex-wife, her
wheeler-dealer boyfriend, and the big muscle man in the local mafia.
But which of them ordered murder - and signed Cade's name to the tab?
Born Gunard Hjerstedt in Chicago in 1903, Day Keene became
an actor in repertory theater in the early 1920's. When his actor
friends decided to try film, he instead turned to writing, and during
the 1930's was a principal writer for the Little Orphan Annie radio
show, as well as contributing to the pulps. After he moved to the west
coast of Florida, he began writing paperback originals in the late
1940's, mostly fast-paced crime stories. By the 1960's, he had
abandoned mysteries for mainstream novels. He died in North Hollywood
in 1969.
