Night Without Morning / Round the Clock at Volari's — W.R. Burnett

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 dead, and Willie. He had kept his cool, outsmarting them all and living a new life on the Coast. But there was an eighth member, Johnny Quait, an old cripple but still a formidable foe. He intends to find Willie. And to do that he enlists the one who got away-crazy, unpredictable Carol Benedict-to help in his search. Slowly Willie's perfect world begins to crumble. And then he meets Dorothy... ROUND THE CLOCK AT VOLARI'SJim Chase's legal career had flourished during the last administration. But the reformers are in now, and he's hit lean times. After losing another case, he heads over to Volari's, the nightclub where he used to reign supreme in the good old days. Judy's there, the pretty young waitress he left his wife for. And Al Patton, the new owner. But something is up tonight. Judy's worried, and Al's a jittery wreck. The Grand Jury is going to subpoena his brother Tom, and he needs to get Tom's money to him from the Volari vault. Jim agrees to help, but when the guys who are supposed to deliver the cash to Tom disappear, his job becomes a lot more complicated.