The Big Make, by “Gene Paul,” aka Paul Conant (Lion Library, 1957). According to Allen J. Hubin’s Crime Fiction IV: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1749-2000, author Paul Eugene Conant was born in San Bernardino, California, in 1906; worked as “a copy reader in Fort Lewis, Washington, in 1942”; and died in New York in 1968. He may be remembered best for publishing, under his own name, a 1952 mystery titled Dr. Gatskill’s Blue Shoes. In addition, though, he released three crime novels as part of editor Arnold Hano’s once-notable Lion Books paperback line (1949-1955): Little Killer (1952), Naked in the Dark (1953), and finally The Big Make, which was actually Little Killer under a fresh title. Click here to read the back-cover copy.
Illustration by Robert Maguire.
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