Frank Hearn is a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and bruiser, looking for the big score in the heart of the Roaring Twenties. When he loses a shipment of top-quality booze to a double-crossing government thief, Frank hunts him down, roughs him up, and fi...
Returning to the boisterous, colorful world he created in his critically acclaimed crime novel, 7,000 Clams, Lee Irby opens a unique and exhilarating window on the Roaring Twenties. Charming yet ill-fated Frank Hearn is ready to leave behind his high...
Paris, 1937. On a sultry July evening, a beautiful American woman vanishes into thin air. At first the gendarmes don't believe she's really missing. Perhaps she's run off with a lover, they cynically suggest. But the woman's aunt knows better and fee...
Riotous and riveting, this is the story of a charming college professor who most definitely did not -- but maybe did -- kill his ex-wife. Or someone else. Or no one. Irby plays with the thriller trope in unimaginably clever ways. Edwin Stith, a fa...