It's a battle between the epitome of sixties era detective novelists–Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer series–and the hardest of the hard-boiled revisionist tougher-than-grime New York street-savvy mean-streeters, Andrew Vachss's Burke series. And perhaps, appropriate to the subject of murder, we ELIMINATE one of these book-batches from our shelves in the soon-to-be-mythically-successful Battle of the Bathtub ELIMINATION ROUND!

In THIS corner: Ross MacDonald's FIND A VICTIM (1954)
and in THAT corner: Andrew Vachss's DOWN IN THE ZERO (1994)

Who will survive? (Well, none of us, but...)