Baby Moll

"Baby Moll" by John Farris is one of those Hard Case Crime novels that reprint (or print new) hard boiled crime noir novels, mostly from the heyday of the genre. This one focused on a former mobster named Pete who has left the life and is living happily and about to get married when his old boss summons him back home because someone is trying to kill him and he needs Pete help to strike back. Why does Pete go? Because his old boss threatens to tell his fiancee. So Pete goes. And almost gets killed. A lot. And chases around some clues as to who is trying to kill his boss. It was actually very boring and I stopped paying attention less than halfway through, therefore, I don't know who was trying to kill the boss. I'm sure it was mentioned, but I missed it.