The Damned Don't Die

Reprint; originally published under the title, The Gourmet. Unread mas market paperback. Nisbet's best books maintained the dreadful momentum and mordant humor of noir while incorporating everything from metaphysics to astrophysics. Nisbet's first novel, originally published in 1981, is in the tradition of the hard-boiled detective novel, although the prose is anything but lean. Martin Windrow is an ex-cop turned private detective, and when we meet him he is perusing a murder scene with a cop friend. 127 pages.