W.R. Burnett

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1954
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Captain Lightfoot

  • High Sierra

    HIGH SIERRABig Mac buys Roy Earle's pardon because he needs a gunman on a heist job in California. There are three of them in on it besides Roy: Red, Babe and Louis, the inside man. But Roy didn't figure on Marie, Babe's girl. At first Roy wants Mari...

  • Good-Bye Chicago

  • The Asphalt Jungle

    A gripping tale of the planning and execution of a jewellery store heist in a dark and corrupt Midwestern metropolis. Set amid a seedy urban wasteland of crooks, killers and con-artists, the members of the gang are steadily undone by their personal o...

  • Little Caesar

    LITTLE CAESARRico is a small, pale man, but he has guts, endurance and a steely single-mindedness. When Vettori sends the gang out to rob a local nightclub, Rico shoots a cop who pulls a gun on him. They get away, but Vettori is shocked. He had told ...

  • Bitter Ground

  • Nobody Lives Forever

  • Little Men, Big World

    A crime novel that probe the political corruption of a big Midwestern city, where the important deals are always made behind closed doors, and the real power is wielded behind the throne. Along with The Asphalt Jungle and Vanity Row, this novel form...

  • Vanity Row

    A crime novel that probes the political corruption of a big Midwestern city, where the important deals are always made behind closed doors, and the real power is wielded behind the throne. Along with The Asphalt Jungle and Little Men Big World, this ...



  • It's Always Four O'Clock // Iron Man

    It's Always Four O'Clock

    When Stan first meets Royal Mauch, he isn't impressed. He's digging the scene at the Treble Clef and Royal, this thin little guy two seats down, is so boiled he can't get his cigarette up to his mouth. But ...

  • Little Caesar / The Silver Eagle

    LITTLE CAESARRico is a small, pale man, but he has guts, endurance and a steely single-mindedness. When Vettori sends the gang out to rob a local nightclub, Rico shoots a cop who pulls a gun on him. They get away, but Vettori is shocked. He had told ...

  • The Silver Eagle

    THE SILVER EAGLEHarworth comes from the school of hard knocks. He knows what it's like to be poor, and rejected. So when he takes his horserace winnings and invests them instead of turning them over again at the faro table, all of a sudden he finds h...

  • Nobody Lives Forever / Tomorrow's Another Day

    NOBODY LIVES FOREVERDoc Ganson's career has bottomed out, but he has a plan for the perfect con-a rich widow, ripe for the plucking. All he has to do is convince the big guy, Jim Farrar, to take her on. But Farrar is growing tired of the grifter's li...

  • Night Without Morning / Round the Clock at Volari's

    NIGHT WITHOUT MORNINGThe million-dollar robbery would have gone off without a hitch except that two of Willie Madden's partners decided to shoot it out with the cops. Now there are only five of them left-three in prison, one on the loose and presumed...

  • Adobe Walls

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

W.R. Burnett has published 15 books.

W.R. Burnett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Night Without Morning / Round the Clock at Volari's, was published in November 2024.

The first book by W.R. Burnett, Captain Lightfoot, was published in January 1954.

No. W.R. Burnett does not write books in series.
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