Author Photograph: Wade Miller

I'm guessing that's Bob Wade on the left and Bill Miller on the right. From the back cover of Guilty Bystander (Signet 1482; January 1958).

Pulp Poem of the Week

There was a beauty mark

alongside her mouth,

as if to serve as a guide.

Wade Miller

Sinner Take All

1960

Pulp Poem of the Week

To live dangerously
is merely a form
of self-expression.

Wade Miller
Sinner Take All
1960

Book Review: Wade Miller, Sinner Take All (1960)

Jack Cox, an American expatriate living in Tijuana, is a man without a country, but if he will murder political militant Bruno Lazar, he will be given a fresh start: $50,000 and citizenship in a new country. Wade Miller keeps Cox's past misdeeds vague enough so that he can emerge as a sort of Everyman as hired assassin. What we see of Jack we like, and we root for him to succeed--though it is unclear whether that means killing his target or walking away without even making the attempt. There are, of course, a pair of women in the mix, the most important being Dorlisa Weber, who is working to protect Lazar while Cox is working to romance her and gain her confidence so that he may defeat her. Well worth seeking out. Grade: B+