The Big Clock Author:Kenneth Fearing George Stroud, ediotr at Crimeways magazine, is involved with the wrong woman - his boss's. The boss kills her in an argument and pins thecrime on a man seen outseide her home just before the murder. He assigns the best investigative reporter - Stroud - to find the man. But the man was Stroud himself... An audacious novel of terror and... more » high tension, the basis for the classis 1948 film (with Ray Milland) and No Way Out , the 1987 Kevin Costner remake.« less