Larry Kent: Spanish Harlem

A promising young student named Phillip Ecuador vanished from his military academy in Georgia, and Larry Kent was hired to find out what had become of him.The investigation took him to a redneck town called Dixievale, a bully-boy sheriff and a militant group known as the Sons of the South. As things progressed, Larry was framed, arrested, imprisoned and shot at, but not once did he ever consider giving up. The stakes were too high for that. His client-Phillip's father-was a violent underworld boss, and if Larry didn't crack the case, a vicious gang war was going to rip New York's Harlem district to shreds … (Book 751) Over 400 Larry Kent novels and novelettes were published under the Larry Kent byline. The covers usually featured paintings of leggy, full-figured babes and sported such snappy (and often exclamation mark-endowed) titles as Kill Me a Little!, This Way, Sucker!, Cute Heat!, Dig Me a Dame! and Stand Up and Die! Add on the 150 or so radio shows, and we figure that Larry turns out to be one of the hardest working eyes around ... certainly it is the longest-running detective series in history!Piccadilly Publishing have chosen 25 Larry Kent novels to be made available for the first time digitally in the English language and feature the gorgeous original covers (themselves collectible)., with PP's own slant on them.