The directory «Plots»

Burnett William Riley
(1899—1982)

William Riley Burnett was a master of journeyman fiction whose work is so efficient and skillful that it has left him all but anonymous in a world that deifies his contemporaries James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Burnett wrote some 36 novels and either wrote or collaborated on 60 screenplays, not to mention dozens of magazines... More...

Grenada Grenadines, 1999, Edward S. Robinson in «Little Caesar»