Dark Hazard / The Quick Brown Fox - Paperback

by W. R. Burnett (Author), Cullen Gallagher (Introduction by)

DARK HAZARD

Jim Turner used to play the horses. Hell, he used to own a winner. But since he met and married Marg, he's a changed man. Now he's a Chicago hotel night clerk. But the lure of the track never goes away. So when Mr. Bright pulls a trick on him and gets him fired from his job, and then offers him a new position at a California dog track, Jim jumps at the chance. Marg hates gambling and is at first reluctant, but Jim is persuasive. Once there, Jim finds dog racing to be even more exciting than horse racing. And that's when Jim falls in love all over again... with a sleek, black greyhound named Dark Hazard.

THE QUICK BROWN FOX

When reporter Ray Benedict first meets Brant and his two friends Nick and Harry, he is impressed. They are large men, filled with a careless ease. And they're war heroes, too, having supposedly saved a boat full of men at Dunkirk. So Ray uses his newspaper column to give them a good write-up and a bit of fame. But then Brant brazenly shares his personal philosophy, and Ray realizes that these three men aren't heroes but cold-blooded schemers. Brant looks appealing on the surface, but he has an agenda, using Ray's influence to build up a political career. And that's when Ray sees these three men for what they really are.