{"product_id":"killer-with-a-key-hardcover","title":"Killer with a Key: A Hardboiled Crime Novel of Murder, Blackmail, and Pursuit - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Marlowe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKiller with a Key\u003c\/em\u003e is a hardboiled crime novel from Dan J. Marlowe, a writer whose lean, violent fiction helped define the darker edge of mid-century American suspense.\u003c\/strong\u003e A man with a criminal past, a woman in danger, and a key that may unlock more than one secret pull the story into a world of pursuit, mistrust, blackmail, and murder. Marlowe's strength is pressure: his characters move through a landscape where greed, fear, and desperation strip away respectable surfaces and leave only risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in the late 1950s, \u003cem\u003eKiller with a Key\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the world of paperback noir, hardboiled mystery, and American crime fiction in which survival often depends on nerve, suspicion, and the willingness to act first. For readers of vintage crime novels, noir fiction, private-eye-era suspense, paperback originals, and mid-century mystery fiction, Marlowe offers the directness and menace that made his work a lasting part of the hardboiled tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45164569624715,"sku":"9781515425328","price":54.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/1hMtCcp8DO9781515425328.webp?v=1783257203","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/killer-with-a-key-hardcover","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}