Piccadilly Publishing

Classic hardboiled thrillers from the master of the genre. Gamblers, extortionists, murderers, vice ... these novels covers them all. From the author of action-packed Westerns: CEMETERY JONES and BUCHANAN.



WILLIAM R. COX

Piccadilly Publishing / William R. Cox Classic Crime Novels

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WAY TO GO, DOLL BABY

Who hurt Doll Lansing so bad? Tim Farr didn't know.

Who banged Doll's head around so that her whiskey-blurred eyes could no longer see which men were doing what to her hot, voluptuous body?

Everybody in Asienta, maybe. Producers, actors, tennis pros, even realtors and judges.

Until Doll lay like a broken puppet at the base of a cliff, the wheel of justice spun crazily, and the pointer reached Tim Farr.

Sure, everybody in the smoldering Hollywood suburb had had a go at Doll at one time or another. So had he.

INCLUDES SPECIAL BONUS NOVELLA - "What's Cookin', Killer"

Published March 01, 2023. £1.99



   

THE TYCOON AND THE TIGRESS

The Tycoon ...

He was only in his early thirties but he was head of a vast business empire. He was handsome and sophisticated, and he could be very dangerous when he wanted to be. He was married to a woman who was consistently unfaithful to him. Nobody knew why he stood for it, he certainly didn't have to....

and The Tigress ...

She could do things with her eyes and voice that astonished him almost as much as what she could do with her magnificent body. He hated all the things she had done before they met, and yet he knew he would never have wanted her if she had not been so well versed in the ways of love.

Published November 01, 2021. Recommended Price: £1.99



   

DEATH COMES EARLY

Lila Lee Sharp was a seller of sex and as far as Jack Ware was concerned, she'd sold his best friend short.

But Ted Colyer was beyond caring about whether he'd been the victim of a hard sell - he was stretched out on a slab in the morgue with a hole in his chest the size of a picture window.

Lila was the key to the murder puzzle, except that her lush body and hot, knowing eyes kept Ware from fitting the pieces together. He could think of nothing else but the fact he had to have her. And he knew the high price he might have to pay: his life, and maybe hers.

Published October 01, 2022. £1.99



   

HOT TIMES

This is a novel about the Thirties. About a big town and hard times, about love and hate, violence and corruption, and about people who made a game out of life, people like:

JOEL: He was tempted by everything: love, sex, and dirty money. But he didn't have the guts for any of it.
MERCED: She wanted love, but marriage was too high a price.
STASH: A reporter with a family fortune and a lust for seeking out corruption in high places. He lived dangerously, but his greatest risk was falling in love with the wrong woman.
JOAN: She had money and beauty. If money couldn't buy what she wanted, her body could.
FROSTY: A kingpin in the underworld. He had a certain deadly charm and half the town's bluebloods were in hock to him.
RED: He was an easy man to hate. Vulgar, sex-intoxicated, and crooked as hell. His only friends were his enemies ... and he knew it.

Published November 01, 2022. Recommended Price of £1.99



 
 

MAKE MY COFFIN STRONG

A whisper into the mouthpiece - a name, a place - and maybe that night a black truck would careen up the El aimed at Steve Galloway. Or it could be a knife, or a gun.

Galloway knew all this. But Sam, who had raised him, was dead, dead at the hands of these civilized killers, these quiet, dark men who dealt in corruption and decay.

So Galloway fought them anyway, with all the wildness of the black Irish in him, and he almost had them when the house fell in on him ... for he found himself in love with his enemy's girl.

Now somewhere, he knew, in Greater New York, and in a matter of hours, a phone would be lifted and over the wires would hum ... the message of death.

Fully Authorized Edition Published December 01, 2022. Special Price of JUST: £0.99







TOM KINCAID MYSTERIES






     

MURDER IN VEGAS

In Vegas only the amateurs buck the big odds, and Tom Kincaid was a professional.

He was smart, tool and cynical. He always figured the percentages down to the last decimal point ... until the night that the killer cut him in on a game of murder.

That was the night Kincaid found that the cards were stacked against him with the table stakes life or death ... his life, his death.

Published June 01, 2022. Recommended Price: £1.99



     

DEATH ON LOCATION

DEATH in Vegas. Two hopheads pull a heist in a crowded casino, your casino, Kincaid....

DEATH in the Nevada hills. A wrist twists, a knife strikes, and a beautiful girl lies dead on a movie set.

DEATH is something you've always lived with if your name's Tom Kincaid and you're a professional gambler who's willing to bet against long odds.

DEATH is something you've got to expect, Kincaid ... especially when you've put up a million to back a movie starring your girl... a movie called "Gun For Sale."

Published July 01, 2022. Recommended Price: £1.99



     

HELL TO PAY

They'd hurt a lot of innocent people. They'd tortured women, stolen money for dope, committed rape and murder. And, like everyone else, Tom Kincaid, a freelance gambler, had ignored them, figuring it was up to the cops or the syndicate to settle the score.

But, this time, it was different. That was Sally lying there in the rabble heap, her twisted, broken body crying out for revenge. This time, they'd pay. Kincaid would see to it, personally. He'd track them down, ferret them out ... and kill them, one by one.

Here's a tough, tense thriller about a gambler with an edge, a gambler with death up his sleeve. And who will bring death to all sides.

Published August 01, 2022. Recommended Price: £1.99