Trouble is My Beat

Description

Hollywood, 1945. The war is over and the boys are coming home. But in Tinseltown it's crime as usual. Bill Armbrewster is the troubleshooter for National-Consolidated Pictures. That means getting leading men out of the drunk tank … or a murder rap. It means keeping wolves away from starlets and dancers away from temptation. Once it even means helping Bette Davis out of a jam. His beat is trouble and his fists are ready. And when he isn’t solving studio problems he's pounding a typewriter, writing crime stories for the fabled Black Mask pulp magazine. From City Hall to the Sunset Strip—and all points in between—William “Wild Bill” Armbrewster, a Marine who fought in France in the first World War, gets between the studio talent and a raft of swindlers and hooligans, killers and thieves. Fair warning: Don’t get on his bad side. As tough as Sam Spade and as wisecracking as Philip Marlowe, Bill Armbrewster will appeal to fans of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker. From International Thrillers Writers Award winner James Scott Bell, here are six complete novelettes written in classic pulp style. Also included is a glossary of pulp slang. Learn to tell a fin from a sawbuck, a clip joint from a flophouse, and what it means to order Adam and Eve on a Raft.