Doom Service: A Johnny Killain Hard-Boiled Mystery - Hardcover

A hard-boiled hotel detective is pulled into a murder case where every answer leads deeper into danger, deception, and violence.

Johnny Killain knows the Hotel Duarte from the inside out: its staff, its guests, its secrets, and the kind of trouble that can walk through the lobby wearing a good suit and a bad conscience. When murder enters the picture, Killain is forced into the sort of investigation where official explanations are too neat, suspects are too polished, and the truth is likely to get someone killed before it is dragged into the light.

Dan J. Marlowe's Doom Service is a taut piece of mid-century American crime fiction, built around suspicion, pressure, and the rough moral code of a man who understands both criminals and respectable liars. The novel belongs to Marlowe's Johnny Killain sequence and carries the lean, fast-moving energy of paperback-original hard-boiled fiction: sharp dialogue, dangerous women, crooked motives, and violence never far from the door.

First published in 1960, Doom Service is ideal for readers of vintage crime, noir fiction, hotel mysteries, private-eye fiction, and the darker side of postwar American paperback suspense.