“Tight Squeeze,” by William Fuller

Tight Squeeze, by William Fuller (Dell, 1960). This is the last of half a dozen novels to feature Brad Dolan, Bill Fuller’s “hard-boiled adventurer, smuggler and wanderer,” described by The Thrilling Detective Web Site as “a sort of pre-Travis McGee Travis McGee and certainly no stranger to trouble. Or violence. Or babes.”

Cover artwork by Victor Kalin.