House Dick
by E. Howard Hunt | 
Fade To Blonde
by Max Phillips | 
Kiss Her Goodbye
by Allan Guthrie | 
The Guns of Heaven
by Pete Hamill | 
The Last Match
by David Dodge | 
The Vengeful Virgin
by Gil Brewer | 
The Peddler
by Richard S. Prather | 
Say It With Bullets
by Richard Powell | 
Home is the Sailor
by Day Keene | 
Branded Woman
by Whit Masterson | 
Fake I.D.
by Jason Starr | 
Witness to Myself
by Seymour Shubin | 
Two For The Money
by Max Allan Collins | 
Dead Street
by Mickey Spillane |
Brainquake
by Samuel Fuller | 
No Beast So Fierce
by Edward Bunker | 
Hell on Church Street
by Jake Hinkson | 
The Animal Factory
by Edward Bunker | 
Che Committed Suicide
by Petros Markaris | 
Zone Defence
by Petros Markaris |
This crime chuckler wears its Elmore Leonard influence on its cover: "Dutch" is Leonard's nickname. The Dutch uncle in the book is an actual Dutchman whose cocaine and untimely demise set a small swarm of crooks and cops in motion. Harry Healy is the sort-of hero, a likable, small-time criminal, just out of jail, who has a hard time making good decisions. But he's just one player in a memorably quirky cast that includes a dim ex-jock snorting his way through his inheritance; a ditzy babe whose constant nakedness is annoying everyone; a short, chunky detective who struggles with his sensitivity training; and the braces-wearing Latina colleague he might just be made for. Pavia, coauthor of The Other Hollywood, an "oral history" of the porn industry, redraws the hard-boiled boundaries of the Hard Case Crime line a bit to include this offbeat diversion in the style of Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Charles Willeford's Hoke Moseley books