Lillian started to close the door. Then she looked at him. It went on like that for a while. Then she opened the door wider and said, “All right, come on in.”

THE END

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ANOTHER CRIME FICTION CLASSIC

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From the pen of one of the greatest crime fiction writers of them all, Jim Thompson. Sharecropper Hell takes the reader on a dizzying journey through the hell of sharecropping life in rural Oklahoma. Nineteen-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but he’s got some mighty tall odds stacked against him—a brutal sharecropper father, a secret love affair with his wealthy landowner’s daughter, a step-mother devoid of maternal instincts, and even his own short-tempered, prideful ways. The odds only get worse when Tommy is fingered for murder in this shocking, twisting tale that explores sex, American Indian rituals, simmering race politics in mid-20th century Oklahoma and, of course, crime.

Featuring the evocative illustrations of artist Martha Kelly, Sharecropper Hell is available from all ebook retailers.

Coming Soon from Chalk Line Books

The Killing by Lionel White (made into a classic noir film by Stanley Kubrick) and more by Charles Williams, Jim Thompson, Lionel White, James M. Cain, James O. Causey, Peter Rabe, and many others.

THE GREATEST CRIME PHOTOGRAPHER OF ALL TIME -- WEEGEE

Weegee not only captured the gritty underbelly of New York City in his explosive photographs, but he lived it as well. This long out-of-print autobiography, brought back as an ebook with complete and unabridged text by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, was written toward the end of Weegee’s life before he was the photographic legend he is today. Here he tells the story of how an impoverished Jewish immigrant named Arthur Fellig from Zlothev, Austria, came to grips with one of the toughest cities in the world and made it his own. In wisecracking prose that is a match for his unblinking ferocity behind the camera, Weegee candidly and without reserve tells readers about documenting the grisly street executions by Murder, Inc., tenements up in flames, child killers, lovers in the back rows of movie theaters, and the sexual misadventures of streetwalkers, pimps, and transsexuals, all in a voice that had seen it all and loved it all. Fans of Weegee’s photography will not want to miss his story—told in the way only Weegee himself could tell.

The new Devault-Graves Digital Editions version of Weegee: The Autobiography contains a wealth of new material for readers. Included are: extensive annotations and endnotes, an original Afterword by author and critic Ed Ward, a bibliography of Weegee’s photography books, a guide for further study on works about Weegee, and a guide for further study of books by and about other neorealist photographers such as Diane Arbus. Available at all ebook retail outlets.

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