Book description
He was as rare as a three-dollar bill . . . an honest man in the town
of French Bayou - that was crowding Phenix City out of corruption's
first place.
He was young Deputy Sheriff Andy Latour, with enough stern morality
for someone to have set an assassin on his trail.
But Latour dodged the bullets, and now it was urgent that his voice
be silenced. So - a phone call in the night, a drive out of town, the
thud of a blackjack.
And when Latour woke to daylight he was ringed around by hard,
watchful men, accused of the brutal rape of a gorgeous young redhead -
and the murder of her aged husband.
And even when Latour crashed jail, the word went out to bring him
back dead . . .
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.
