The first paragraph:
From the back seat of the
Olds I could see the kid’s cotton gloves flash white on the steering wheel as
he swung off Van Buren onto Central Avenue. On the right up ahead the strong
late September Phoenix sunshine blazed off the bank’s white stone front till it
hurt his eyes. The damn building looked as big as the purple buttes on the rim
of the desert.
The Name of the Game is Death is the first appearance of Earl Drake; a middle-lass mand who turned violent crime as an escape of the “hopelessness of middle-class life.” The follow-up novel, One Endless Night, is the second part of a single seamless story. Drake was revived for Marlowe’s ten “Operation” novels.
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