Lionel White was born July 9, 1905 in Buffalo, New York. He started his career as a police reporter and true crime magazine editor, and turned those experiences toward fiction writing with his first novel, The Snatchers, in 1953, about a failed kidnapping. He wrote more than 35 books, many of them translated into different languages and turned into films like The Night of the Following Day, The Money Trap, The Big Caper, Pierrot le Fou and perhaps most famously, The Killing, adapted by Stanley Kubrick from White's novel, Clean Break. He was considered the master of the big caper, and was credited by director Quentin Tarantino with the inspiration for his film, Reservoir Dogs. White died December 26, 1985, in Asheville, North Carolina.



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  • Too Young to Die / The Time of Terror
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  • "When compared to Lionel White's contemporaries, this author remains in the very top echelon of mid‐20th Century crime‐noir creators."—Paperback Warrior. New introduction by Matthew Sorrento.

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  • Rafferty / To Find a Killer
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  • Two crime novels, the first the story of the rise and fall of a labor boss; the second a twisted tale of a cop who decides to murder his wife. "&helip;told with slick professional skill and vigor."—Kirkus Reviews. New introduction by George Kelley.

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  • The Mexico Run / Jailbreak
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  • "From seedy motels to abandoned coastal villas, White takes advantage of atmosphere and environment to create his riveting portrait of betrayal and intrigue."—Paperback Warrior. New introduction by Eric Compton. October 2022.

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  • Invitation to Violence / Party to Murder
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  • "Classic and solid noir. I felt I was transported back to the forties and in a black and white film…"—Steve Scott. Introduction by Cullen Gallagher. June 2022.

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  • The Money Trap / Love Trap
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  • "… two cops figure that if they rip off a drug dealer, who cannot call the police, they can get off Scott‐free… a taut, nasty little thriller, a model of its kind."—Ronald Koltnow. New introduction by Timothy J. Lockhart. February 2022.

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  • Steal Big / The Big Caper
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  • "White's writing is brilliant throughout and just pure noir, stripped to the basics and filled with tight detail."—Brian Greene, Criminal Element. New introduction by Nicholas Litchfield, afterword by Cullen Gallagher. May 2021.

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  • Coffin for a Hood / Operation — Murder
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  • Two 1950s thrillers from the "master of the big caper." [New York Times] "Smart, fast, hard-edged storytelling."—Don Crinklaw, Booklist. New introduction by Ben Boulden. November 2019.

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  • "For unadorned action, suspense, and vigorous storytelling his novels have seldom been surpassed."—Bill Crider, 20th Century Crime & Mystery Writers. "Many plot twists and a surprise ending."—Amazon.com. July 2018.

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  • The Snatchers / Clean Break
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  • Two classic caper novels from the early 1950s. Clean Break was filmed as The Killing by Stanley Kubrick in 1956. "One of the best thrillers I've read this or any season."—Jack Webb. New introduction by Rick Ollerman. March 2017.

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  • A lone driver picks up a beautiful woman and gets more than he bargained for, and the perfect heist is made complicated when a drunken neighbor climbs in the wrong window. From the author of Clean Break, filmed in 1956 by Stanley Kubrick as The Killing. Introduction by Brian Greene. Due November 2015.

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