Cassidy's Girl by David Goodis
Cassidy's Girl" offers a portrayal of lost people in forgotten streets of Philadelphia in the years following WW II. The characters in the story are tormented and fallen. They struggle with alcohol and with their own demons.  They say that a man needs a woman to go to hell with. Cassidy had two. One was Mildred, the wife who kept him chained with ties of fear and jealousy and paralyzing sexual need. The other was Doris, a frail angel with a 100-proof halo and a bottle instead of a harp. With those two, Cassidy found that the ride to hell could be twice as fast. Cassidy's Girl has all the traits that made its author a virtuoso of the hard-boiled: a fiercely compelling ploy; characters who self-destruct in spectacularly unpredictable ways; and an insider's knowledge of all the routes to the bottom.

Zigzags of Treachery by Dashielle Hammett
When a prominent surgeon commits suicide and an unknown wife shows up, the Op and other agents follow suspect after suspect to untangle a decades-old conspiracy. . In a busy hour, a hit-and-run leads the Op to a print shop where he's mobbed

12 Chinamen and a Woman by James Hadley Chase
Lurid pulp fiction, thrilling and fun to read, with lurid hinted overtones of nasty sex and crime. A wild, fun book to read.  Apparently, a woman is kidnapped and put aboard a ship, wherein there are 12 Chinamen and her.  The sexual overtones are there, but this novel does not quite touch upon the fear of gang rape of the woman.  Rather, it allows the reader to imagine what might happen to the woman.  An interesting, very hard-to-put-down tale.  Recommended.
Only one woman could satisfy Glorie Leadler's craving for love and excitement.And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast.   When jealous rivals tore that midnight lover from Glorie's arms, her overheated emotions burst forth in a volcano of love-stricken vengeance that rocked Florida and left a sizzling mark on many men's souls.
I you like a combination of the passionate writing of Donald Herderson Clarke and the violence and vogor of Dashiell Hammet you'll go for this great James Hadley Chase novel.Author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, Chase is a master at mixing hard men, soft ladies, and the shocking impact of unexcpeted action.  Twelve Chinamen and a A Woman is a book we guarantee you won't lay down until the last thrill-packed page.