Ed McBain: The Gutter and the Grave (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.

Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city¹s bartenders. But trouble still knows how to find him, and when Johnny Bridges shows up from the old neighborhood, begging for Matt¹s help, Cordell finds himself drawn into a case full of beautiful women and bloody murder. It¹s just like the old days -- only this time, when the beatings come, he may wind up on the receiving end...

Ed McBain: The Gutter and the Grave. Hard Case Crime / Leisure Books, ISBN: 0843955872 (December, 2005), 217 p., $6.99.

Curt Cannon: I'm Cannon - For Hire (USA 1958)

From the Publisher:
"They yanked my license," I told him. "Get yourself a bona fide private detective. Don't come running to a Bowery bum."
"Is that what you are, Curt?"
"What the hell did you think I was? A society swordsman? A pedigreed dog trainer? I'm a bum. Me. Curt Cannon, ex-private eye. I sleep on park benches when I don't have the money for a bed. I drink twenty-five hours out of twenty-four. I'm a bum. Do you want me to yell hallelujah?"
He was a stubborn guy. He leaned toward me and said harshly, "I don't care about all that, Curt. You're good and I need you. I need you to find a killer who's trying to murder me..."

Curt Cannon: I'm Cannon - For Hire. I don't care whether I live or die, so I'm the best guy you can hire to find a trigger-happy killer. Fawcett World Library, Gold Medal Book #814 (October, 1958), 144 p., ¢25.