NIGHT WITHOUT MORNING The million-dollar robbery would have gone off without a hitch except that two of Willie Madden’s partners decided to shoot it out with the cops. Now there are only five of them left—three in prison, one on the loose and presumed dead, and Willie. He had kept his cool, outsmarting them all and living a new life on the Coast. But there was an eighth member, Johnny Quait, an old cripple but still a formidable foe. He intends to find Willie. And to do that he enlists the one who got away—crazy, unpredictable Carol Benedict—to help in his search. Slowly Willie’s perfect world begins to crumble. And then he meets Dorothy… ROUND THE CLOCK AT VOLARI’S Jim Chase’s legal career had flourished during the last administration. But the reformers are in now, and he’s hit lean times. After losing another case, he heads over to Volari’s, the nightclub where he used to reign supreme in the good old days. Judy’s there, the pretty young waitress he left his wife for. And Al Patton, the new owner. But something is up tonight. Judy’s worried, and Al’s a jittery wreck. The Grand Jury is going to subpoena his brother Tom, and he needs to get Tom’s money to him from the Volari vault. Jim agrees to help, but when the guys who are supposed to deliver the cash to Tom disappear, his job becomes a lot more complicated. “…a fresh twist on the form he invented, the modern psychological criminal novel.”—Robin H. Smiley, Firsts “As Burnett had once written from the point of view of those at the top—from the forces of law and detection to the Chicago gangsters themselves—in Round the Clock at Volari’s he was now telling his story from the perspective of those at the bottom of the pyramid, those whose lives were affected by the actions and fortunes of the more powerful..”—David Laurence Wilson from his introduction "One of the most important American fiction writers of the twentieth century." –H.R.F. Keating William Riley Burnett was born November 25, 1899 in Springfield, Ohio. Moving to Chicago in 1927, he developed an interest in gangsters which prompted him to write his first noir novel, Little Caesar, in 1929. Soon after that overnight success, Burnett moved to Los Angeles, eventually writing 36 novels—including High Sierra and The Asphalt Jungle—and 60 screenplays, as well as songs, plays and short stories. Nominated twice for an Academy Award, he received both the MWA Grand Master award and an O. Henry Memorial Award. Burnett died on April 25, 1982.