Carnival of Death Book

Actually it's more Noir-Lite than fully-leaded noir. It's one of Day Keene's later paperback originals, published in 1965. There are references to the Bay of Pigs invasion and lots of politically-incorrect observations about women. Also, teenagers say things like, "Get hip, make the scene, man. Don't you dig?"

The plot involves an armored-truck heist in the middle of a kiddie-carnival running in a shopping plaza parking lot. It's a good pool-side read but that's about it. The kind of book you pick up and it smells like stale Winstons.