She'll hate me tomorrow by Richard Deming

Not bad, I liked it enough. I don't understand the title though, its connection to the story. This is not a mystery, there's nothing to investigate and the police have but a very, very small role in it. It starts with a secretary, Stella. She works for lawyer Vegas, in Chicago. Dangerous criminal Whitey Cord is, or was, his client. The two of them have a fight, and Vegas knows that his life is in danger. He has Stella write a letter that would put Cord in jail if the police had it, but he doesn't send it. He puts it in his safe, and tells her to send it if he were to be killed. Pretty silly move, I'd say, lawyers should be more intelligent than to keep it in their own office. That same night someone breaks into the office and steals the letter. After that, Vegas and two men that he mentioned in the letter as present the night that Cord killed another man who was about to testify against him are killed. After Stella learns what happens, she understands she's now in danger. She knows everything because she wrote the letter! So she runs away before they can get to her. She takes the first bus, going to St. Stephen, a 12-hour journey, so it's not so strange that they thought of looking for her there..
She doesn't trust the police to protect her, so she goes away saying nothing to anyone (she has no family or friends). Once there, she looks for a job and finds one. Sam Black runs a night club and young, attractive Clancy Ross hires her for the club upstairs (a gambling place). It doesn't take long for them to find her; she's ready to leave but Ross won't let her go. He wants to show that nobody can even harm his employees  and get away with it, so he protects her, but by doing so he attracts troubles upon himself. He starts a war with local gangster Bix Lawson, who has been ordered by dangerous Cord to get the girl. Ross replies to every move: you blow up my place, I blow up three of yours. You send killers to shoot me, I send your men to the bottom of a pond, forever. Stuff like that.
Last try, knowing that Cord has sent his woman to get him into a trap, he goes prepared and manages to kill Whitey Cord and his two killers. At that point, the war with Lawson can end, and everything goes back as it was before. Plus, he has Stella.
Now, the title could be related to the fact that he sleeps with Stella but has no trouble in doing so with other women, not caring if she knows, at least at first, but it has very little to do with the story itself.


ITA e... dopo?