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    Go Home, Stranger

    By Charles Williams

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    An engineer battles a small town to see his sister released from prison.

    It takes Reno three days to get from Peru to the Gulf Coast, and when he gets to Waynesport he has only one stop to make: the city jail, where his sister is being held on a murder rap. The way Vickie tells it, she saw her husband having a drink with another woman, they quarreled, and she went to the bathroom. When she came out, he was shot through the back of the skull. The police believe every word of her story -- except the part about who pulled the trigger.

    Her husband was in Waynesport looking for a crook named Rupert Conway, whom the local police do not seem towant found. To save his sister's neck, Reno must wade through corruption as fetid as the swamps that surround this hellish southern town, where the alligators aren't the only ones who are eager to kill.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHead of Zeus
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781784089399
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    Charles Williams

    Charles Williams (1909–1975) was one of the preeminent authors of American crime fiction. Born in Texas, he dropped out of high school to enlist in the US Merchant Marine, serving for ten years before leaving to work in the electronics industry. At the end of World War II, Williams began writing fiction while living in San Francisco. The success of his backwoods noir Hill Girl (1951) allowed him to quit his job and write fulltime. Williams’s clean and somewhat casual narrative style distinguishes his novels—which range from hard-boiled, small-town noir to suspense thrillers set at sea and in the Deep South. Although originally published by pulp fiction houses, his work won great critical acclaim, with Hell Hath No Fury (1953) becoming the first paperback original to be reviewed by legendary New York Times critic Anthony Boucher. Many of his novels were adapted for the screen, such as Dead Calm (published in 1963) and Don’t Just Stand There! (published in 1966), for which Williams wrote the screenplay. Williams died in California in 1975. 

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    • 5/5
      “Go Home, Stranger” is another excellent pulp thriller by Charles Williams. It is a great read from start to finish. Pete Reno heads directly for Waynesport somewhere on the Gulf Coast after hearing that his sister, Vickie, a famous actress, has been arrested for murdering her husband, Reno’s best friend, after catching him after midnight walking into a hotel with another woman. She was found in the hotel room with the body and the murder weapon showed evidence of having been thrown out a fourteenth story window. She claims she was in the bathroom and, when she came out, she heard the gunshot and saw the killer bolt out the door. With motive, opportunity, and means, the case appears cut and dried and no one believes her story, no one other than Reno.

      Working on barely any clues, Reno realizes that Mac, the deceased, was out in Waynesport, chasing leads on a character who had been dealing black market goods in Italy while in the army. Reno follows the leads to a small fishing camp and nothing there makes much sense to him, but he knows he is onto something.

      The bullets fly on more than one occasion as Reno ducks the gunfire and dives into the bayou on more than one occasion. There are explosions in the bayou and mysterious characters that do not seem to want him around. Reno finds the intriguing woman who fits the description that Vickie gave of the other woman and starts stalking her to see where she’ll lead him. If nothing else, he enjoys watching those dark brown eyes and beautifully tanned face.

      This story is filled with action, intrigue, romance, and just good old- fashioned storytelling. Nobody tells a story as good as Charles Williams does. This is a solid thriller and keeps the reader guessing all the way through.