Who is Teddy Villanova? by Thomas Berger

Berger's take on the hard-boiled crime thriller as practiced by the masters of noir: the seedy office; the down-at-the-heels shamus; the procession of sinister or merely brutal men and scheming, lovely women; the sequence of savage beatings, and especially the Byzantine plot. 

Delta Books 1978 paperback in great condition, see photos.