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"The Girl With The Long Green Heart is a grifter novel that is perfectly pitched. One of those reads when you carry a terrible feeling that everything is going to go wrong... This one has a real hard-boiled flavour. The voice is perfect. The descriptions are minimal but nailed. The quips are sharp and the similes original and full of an acerbic humour that I really enjoyed. Another Hard Case Crime cracker to add to my list and my thirst for Lawrence Block is back." ~Nigel Bird at Sea Minor.

SHE WAS EVERY MAN'S DREAM - AND ONE MAN'S NIGHTMARE! Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman's secretary, his lover - and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she's ready to make him pay... Johnny Hayden has spent a lifetime working the long con, establishing a deceptive front and stinging a mark big-time. A stretch in prison has made a temporarily honest man out of him, but the prospect of one big score to fund his retirement is too much to resist. Fans of The Sting will appreciate the rich details of this original scheme, where a man who bought worthless Canadian land -- "moose pasture" -- years ago is now tricked into buying a whole lot more of it. Noir enthusiasts will be absorbed by a swirling plot, with Johnny and Doug and Evelyn caught up in a race nobody can win. And Hard Case Crime collectors will be able to understand why The Girl with the Long Green Heart has been a key entry ever since the series was launched.

This Classic Crime Library ebook of The Girl with the Long Green Heart contains as a bonus the opening chapter of the nexgt book in the series, The Specialists.

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