Contents
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Search of the Assassin
from: This Gun for Hire
The Hit Man
“Gentlemen, the King!”
Loose Ends
from: the Butcher’s Boy
The Killers
Screen Image: (Royal Emerald Hotel, Nassau)
The Same Only Different!
Hit Man
The Death of Mrs. Sheer
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Cain
When This Man Dies
from: Ripley‘s Game
from: in the Beginning
The Assassin
Shelter
APPENDIX: HIT MAN MOVIES