Product Review

Few characters have the loyal readership of Bill Pronzini's "Nameless Detective." The fourteen stories in this collection span his entire thirty-five-year life on the printed page. They include "It's a Lousy World," where Nameless proves that a friend did not commit the crime he was accused of; "Dead Man's Slough" and "The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch," which take him out of San Francisco into the hinterlands; and "Souls Burning," where he tries to help an old friend make one last try at setting things right.

Stories included in this collection:
It’s a Lousy World
The Pulp Connection
Dead Man’s Slough
The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch
Cat’s-Paw
Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg
Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern
Stakeout
La Bellezza delle Bellezze
Souls Burning
Bomb Scare
The Big Bite
Season of Sharing (with Marcia Muller)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time