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Acclaim for the Work of ELISSA WALD! “A fine, passionately wrought novel from a writer whose prose I’ve long admired. Wald’s vision of the world has much to teach us about the brevity of desire and the longevity of pain.” —Junot Diaz “Psychologically complex... Wald clearly knows her varied characters, whom she portrays in a sympathetic and unsparing light.” — Publishers Weekly “Remarkable and fascinating... Wald writes with a simplicity and frankness that are unusual but perfectly suited to her subject.” — Kirkus Reviews “Elissa Wald’s style is both delicate and tough, her images haunting...I read it in one sitting, and I hope Wald receives the attention that she deserves for producing such a lovely and challenging work.” — Pat Califia “Elissa Wald is a brave, disturbing new voice in American fiction. She works all the margins of the wild side and brings us news from those frontiers that very few writers have dared approach.” — Pat Conroy I had time to take in every detail of the room—the black-and-white photo of the New York City skyline above the headboard, the heavy mauve curtains and the sheer white scrim behind them, the sparkling view through the window, the wide expanse of the bed. I had time to take in every detail of him. He was handsome. His tie was loosened. His shoes were shined. By the time he put his papers aside, my scant black panties were soaked through and there was an ache between my legs. Finally he stood and slowly approached me until we were eye to eye. He had a few inches on me but not many. Looking straight into my gaze, he took off his belt and held it across my mouth. “Kiss it,” he said. I kissed it. “Kiss it like you’d like to kiss me,” he said. “Kiss it like you love it.” My mouth opened and I tongued the leather, nipped at it like a kitten. He took it away and cracked it against the wall next to my head. I whimpered in real fear. Then he wrapped it around my neck, sliding the leather end through the buckle so that it was at once a collar and a leash. “Down on all fours,” he said... SOME OTHER HARD CASE CRIME BOOKS YOU WILL ENJOY: FIFTY-TO-ONE by Charles Ardai KILLING CASTRO by Lawrence Block THE DEAD MAN’S BROTHER by Roger Zelazny THE CUTIE by Donald E. Westlake HOUSE DICK by E. Howard Hunt CASINO MOON by Peter Blauner FAKE I.D. by Jason Starr PASSPORT TO PERIL by Robert B. Parker STOP THIS MAN! by Peter Rabe LOSERS LIVE LONGER by Russell Atwood HONEY IN HIS MOUTH by Lester Dent QUARRY IN THE MIDDLE by Max Allan Collins THE CORPSE WORE PASTIES by Jonny Porkpie THE VALLEY OF FEAR by A.C. Doyle MEMORY by Donald E. Westlake NOBODY’S ANGEL by Jack Clark MURDER IS MY BUSINESS by Brett Halliday GETTING OFF by Lawrence Block QUARRY’S EX by Max Allan Collins THE CONSUMMATA by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins CHOKE HOLD by Christa Faust THE COMEDY IS FINISHED by Donald E. Westlake BLOOD ON THE MINK by Robert Silverberg FALSE NEGATIVE by Joseph Koenig THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH by Ariel S. Winter THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS by James M. Cain SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT by Max Allan Collins WEB OF THE CITY by Harlan Ellison JOYLAND by Stephen King The SECRET LIVES of MARRIED WOMEN by Elissa Wald A HARD CASE CRIME BOOK (HCC-113) First Hard Case Crime edition: October 2013 Published by Titan Books A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd 144 Southwark Street London SE1 0UP in collaboration with Winterfall LLC Copyright © 2013 by Elissa Wald Excerpts from Different Hours by Stephen Dunn, copyright © 2000, used by permission of the author Cover painting copyright © 2013 by Glen Orbik All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher, except where permitted by law. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Print edition ISBN 978-1-78116-262-0 E-book ISBN 978-1-78116-263-7 Design direction by Max Phillips www.maxphillips.net Typeset by Swordsmith Productions The name “Hard Case Crime” and the Hard Case Crime logo are trademarks of Winterfall LLC. Hard Case Crime books are selected and edited by Charles Ardai. Printed in the United States of America Visit us on the web at www.HardCaseCrime.com For Nikolai and David Contents Part One: The Man Under the House 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Part Two: Abel’s Cane 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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