About the book: year / 1951 his first novel, "The Girl from the Hills", was published. Williams wrote more than 20 novels, as well as novellas and short stories. Williams seemed to be familiar with the saying, "God made a country, man made a city, and the devil made a small town." His early detective stories, written in the 1950s and 1960s, are set in small towns along the Gulf Coast and South Florida, in climates hot and humid, full of mosquitoes and snakes. Later and more famous books draw on experiences and impressions from naval service, e.g. - novels "Dead Calm" and "Deep Blue Sea". More than in the United States, his books were extremely popular in France, where almost all of them were either translated or made into films, including by such world-famous film masters as Orson Welles and François Truffaut. Contents:1. Concrete flamingo (Translation: P. Rubtsov)2. The big deceiver (Translation: P. Rubtsov)3. Diamond bikini (Translation: M. Vinogradova)4. Deep blue sea (Translation: P. Rubtsov)5. Girl from the Hills 6. Long Sunday Night (Translation: L. Beringova)7. Breath of Death (Translation: P. Rubtsov)8. The mark of suspicion (Translation: Translator unknown)9. Broke 10. Canvas shroud (Translation: A. Melnikov)11. Delay is like death (Translation: M. Pochtarev)12. Fear on the coast (Translation: V. Sandomirskaya)13. Shadow of suspicion (Translation: P. Rubtsov)14. A man on the run (Translation: P. Rubtsov)15. Man on a leash (Translation: O. Lapikova)