
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
1946

Graham Greene · 1938
288 pages
Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown runs a small gang on the Brighton seafront and commits a murder to hold his position. A cheerful, persistent woman who barely knew the victim decides to find out what really happened, closing in on a boy who believes he is beyond ordinary justice.
Villain Protagonist, Psychological Thriller, Noir, Betrayal, Twist Ending