Halo for Hire — Howard Browne

Collected in this volume are all of Howard Browne s writings of PAUL PINE, one of the genre s great private detectives. Following the first two Chanderlesque novels, HALO IN BLOOD (1946) and HALO FOR SATAN (1948), Browne developed his own style in HALO IN BRASS (1949). With THE TASTE OF ASHES (1957), Browne delivered one of the finest crime novels of the 20th Century. Included is the 1953 story So Dark for April and the unfinished novel, THE PAPER GUN (1985).