During his lifetime, Horace McCoy, an American journalist, writer and screenwriter, gained great fame not in America, but in Europe, where he was recognized as one of the classics of American literature, along with Hemingway and Faulkner. McCoy was appreciated here immediately after the release of his first novel, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, discovering the closeness of his work to the ideas of existentialist writers. McCoy's next novel, “The Shroud Has No Pockets,” published in England, strengthened the writer's fame in Europe. This is the story of a futile attempt to confront pervasive corruption. The hero fights alone for a clean city and a clear conscience, striving to publish the truth and only the truth in his magazine, no matter what the cost. But such things don’t cost much...