The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm
This novel is an absolute must read for lovers of american crime fiction. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner called it "the private-eye novel to end all private-eye novel" and I can do nothing but agree. The story of a near-psychotic private-eye who is dragged from the path of righteousness by his fascination with a multi-murdress. A road novel, a love story, and a classic. It is one of the harshest, darkest, bleakest crime novels I've read but far more satisfying than most.
Good enough to make me read another of Marc Behm's novels, Afraid to Death, immediately afterwards.
