num_pages: 170
description: Bill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but he's a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. When he gets involved with the hard-drinking Fay Anderson and the deceptively pleasant ex-police officer everyone knows as Uncle Bud in a ruthless kidnap plot, everything goes to hell in a hurry, and the end, for Bill, is inevitable and shattering. This is a tour de force of paranoia and violence from the master of the crime noir novel.
language: English
title: After Dark, My Sweet
titlecomplete: After Dark, My Sweet
characters: William "Kid" Collins
genres: Classics, Noir, Mystery, Pulp, Novels, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 4405
publisher: Orion Books