The vengeance man

the long version

Collects three crime novels originally published by Gold Medal Books. The vengeance man: After Jim Wilson murders his wife and her lover in a fleabag motel, he gets off on a technicality and launches a campaign of terror against the small town he believes betrayed him. Park Avenue tramp: During one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo's and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player. But Charity's husband has had enough of her cheating ways. The prettiest girl I ever killed: Accidents happen, but the town of Sherman seems to have more than its fair share of the fatal kind. Someone falls into a well, another drowns, another is killed by an exploding stove. Curt Friedland comes back to town to clear his brother of murder, convinced there is more to all these deaths than mere coincidence.