William P. McGivern’s 1953 novel The Big Heat was the source for Fritz Lang’s classic film noir of the same name. A good noir novel about an obsessed cop and with a complex sympathetic femme fatale. But Lang's movie is better.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2012/03/william-p-mcgiverns-big-heat.html

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