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Book Synopsis The Dime Detectives by : Ron Goulart
Download or read book The Dime Detectives written by Ron Goulart and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of detective fiction pulp magazines from their origins in the nineteenth-century dime novels to their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, profiling many pulp writers who went on to achieve greater fame
Book Synopsis The Adventures Of Paul Pry by : Erle Stanley Gardner
Download or read book The Adventures Of Paul Pry written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-05-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic.
Download or read book The Dime written by Kathleen Kent and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas in this "violent, sexy, and completely absorbing" Edgar Award nominee, the first novel in the acclaimed Betty Rhyzyhk series (Kirkus Reviews). Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the best of them, but she's deeply shaken when her first investigation goes sideways. Battling a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend, the unbreakable Detective Betty Rhyzyk may be reaching her limit. Combining the colorful pyrotechnics of Breaking Bad with the best of the gritty crime genre, The Dime is Kathleen Kent's brilliant mystery debut and the launch of a sensational new series. "Only a fan blowing in the right direction could flip the pages of this lightning-paced tale any faster." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
Book Synopsis Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction by : P. Bedore
Download or read book Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction written by P. Bedore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
Download or read book Crime Writer written by Dime Sheppard and published by Ruby Books. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Shortlisted for the 2022 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, the Davitt Award for Best Crime Books by Australian Women and the People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award** Dime Sheppard delivers a smart and witty caper about a crime novelist who recruits her main characters to investigate her maybe-unfaithful fiancé. Evie Howland has problems. Guns. Bombs. Murderers. And that's just on the page... In real life she's meant to be planning a wedding to adorable billionaire Daniel Bradley, but Evie is seriously snarled in the sixteenth book of her successful crime series. In fact, her protagonists are becoming almost impossible to wrangle: NYPD detective Carolyn Harding is volatile after a messy divorce, and Detective Jay Ryan has that heated look in his blue eyes again. They're both sick of being written. And frankly they're getting a little...physical. Evie is beginning to wonder if she's ever going to finish Book Sixteen and get them back into fiction where they belong. But when a disturbingly familiar homicide surfaces in the city papers, it seems as if other, darker characters might have crossed the fiction-frontier too. In which case, Evie is in a lot of real-life trouble. If she's going to survive it, Evie must face her own worst fears, and learn that real love can be the best way of writing her own story. But can she change the ending? Full of high-octane adventure and dry humour, this novel is perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich's action-packed Stephanie Plum novels, or Mary Stewart's stylish romantic suspense. "Such an original and absorbing novel that will surely be spoken of highly in the fiction world. A wonderful debut; an absolute pleasure to read."—City Hub Sydney "‘Crime Writer’ is a thrilling, more-ish novel…I devoured this story in two days."—Others Magazine "A breathlessly fast paced book...terrifically written with great quotes scattered throughout...An excellent read."—Sydney Arts Guide "Dime Sheppard’s story is equal parts detective thriller and meta giggle-fest...impeccably literary; beautifully written and self-aware. I’ve never read anything like it. This is an extraordinarily good and challenging debut."—3D Radio "This novel was a refreshing change that kept me guessing from start to finish."—1079Life Radio "‘Crime Writer’ will…explode away the cobwebs of other formulaic offerings and detonate a desire to play around in their world with a second reading."—Reviews By Judith "I couldn’t put it down!"—98Five FM Find full reviews at www.dimesheppard.com/reviews
Book Synopsis Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives by : Garyn G. Roberts
Download or read book Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives written by Garyn G. Roberts and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a concentrated sampling of female detective stories from the Old Sleuth serials.
Book Synopsis Little Shop of Homicide by : Denise Swanson
Download or read book Little Shop of Homicide written by Denise Swanson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dev Sinclair is the happy new owner of the old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But if she doesn't focus on finding the killer of her ex's fiancée, this five-and-dime owner may find herself serving twenty-five to life...
Book Synopsis The Dime Novel Detective by : Gary Hoppenstand
Download or read book The Dime Novel Detective written by Gary Hoppenstand and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.
Book Synopsis The Complete Cases of Cash Wale, Volume 1 by : Peter Paige
Download or read book The Complete Cases of Cash Wale, Volume 1 written by Peter Paige and published by Popular Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Peter Paige, one of Black Mask editor Fanny Ellsworth's finds after succeeding Joseph Shaw's tenure in that same role, Paige introduced the tough-as-nails detective Cash Wale and partner Sailor Duffy: a series worthy of the esteemed lineage of Black Mask magazine. Quickly plucked by Black Mask's rival, Dime Detective, the cases of Cash Wale were a mainstay of that magazine for the next decade. Never before in book form, this edition collects his first five cases: "Voodoo Frame," "The Corpse Promoter," "Lotta Had a Husband," "Wanted: Dead and Alive!," and "The Bullet From Nowhere." And it includes an all-new introduction by popular fiction authority John Wooley.
Book Synopsis Knights of the Open Palm by : Carroll John Daly
Download or read book Knights of the Open Palm written by Carroll John Daly and published by Steeger Properties, LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first hard-boiled detective Race Williams, runs up against the Klan in his premiere adventure, which leads him to fast and tragic action. Plus two other early Daly hard-boiled classics: "The False Burton Combs" and "Dolly." Story #1 in the Race Williams series. Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op story by several months. Daly's classic character, Race Williams, was one of the most popular fiction characters of the pulps, and the direct inspiration for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
Book Synopsis The Complete Cases of Inspector Allhoff, Volume 3 by : D. L. Champion
Download or read book The Complete Cases of Inspector Allhoff, Volume 3 written by D. L. Champion and published by Popular Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant, decisive, and hard-charging, Deputy Inspector Allhoff was the NYPD's ace detective until bullets from a mobster's machine gun robbed him of his legs, his career, and-in the opinion of an associate-his sanity. Yet Allhoff was too good a man to be put out to pasture, so New York's police commissioner found a way to keep him employed and refer to him such cases as the department couldn't or wouldn't handle. Confined to a wheelchair and operating from a seedy tenement flat, Allhoff is assisted by two cops: Battersly, the rookie patrolman whose brief moment of cowardice cost the inspector his legs, and Simmons, the bitter career cop who detests Allhoff but sticks with the embittered cripple to protect his own pension. Created by D.L. Champion, Inspector Allhoff denied most conventions of detective-pulp fiction. He could never be confused for one of Raymond Chandler's knights errant, trudging down those mean streets. Allhoff was no Rover Boy in trench coat and fedora. He was, in fact, a sadist and a psychopath. With 30 entries published between 1938 and 1946, the Allhoff series was among the most popular and long-lived to appear in Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. Volume 3 collects the next seven stories: "You're the Crime in My Coffee," "Thanks for the Ration Card!," "The Profitable Corpse," "The Diplomatic Corpse," "Aaron Had a Rod," "The Day Nobody Died," and "Go Home and Die!"
Book Synopsis The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes by : Robert Reeves
Download or read book The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes written by Robert Reeves and published by Popular Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truck driver employed by Murdock Motor Freight, Bookie Barnes is a tough working class hero. Though not a detective per se, he is a rough customer described as "tall, heavy-chested, with a build you see only in physical culture ads, and, though barely twenty-six, he'd been on the trucks for three years." He is emblematic of the type of crime fighters found in pulp fiction in that he represents the typical readership of pulp fiction: an average working-class audience. Written by one of the greats of the detective pulps, Robert Reeves-who was tragically killed in World War II-this book collects all of his Bookie Barnes stories: "Murder in High Gear," "Over a Barrel," and "Murder Without Death," as well as his lone, non-series character story, "Dance Macabre."
Download or read book Private Eyelashes written by Jack French and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines radio and mystery drama from about 1932 to the genre's final appearance in the late 1950's. While its focus is on women detectives, French provides minute and fascinating details about dozens of mystery programs and includes a comprehensive listing of source material ranging from magazine articles, to dime detective novels, to film noir. Each lady detective appearing under one of eight cleverly conceived categories gets handsome, multi-page treatment. The author traces the chronological appearance of the subject's show, examines the program's history and origins, and details with substantial documentation the manner of the show's presentation and production. He intersperses the text with actual dialogue taken directly from the program scripts. Winner of the Agatha Award!
Book Synopsis The Complete Cases of Steve Midnight, Volume 1 by : John K. Butler
Download or read book The Complete Cases of Steve Midnight, Volume 1 written by John K. Butler and published by Altus Press. This book was released on 2016-10-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down and out former playboy Steven Middleton Knight's fortune was destroyed by the Depression. Now a cabbie for the Red Owl Cab Company, he never fails to take on another mystery with each new fare. Created by John K. Butler, this fast-paced, Los Angeles-based hard-boiled series was published between 1940 and 1942 in the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. Contains the following stories: "The Dead Ride Free," "The Man from Alcatraz," "Hacker's Holiday," and "The Saint in Silver."
Book Synopsis The Purple Eye by : William Corcoran
Download or read book The Purple Eye written by William Corcoran and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wildly melodramatic thriller, originally published in the August 1933 issue of DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, provided the template for countless pulp-hero novels published during the Thirties. Depression-era readers craved outlandish menaces to take their minds off their troubles, and The Purple Eye was at the top of the list. The Eye, maniacal criminal mastermind and leader of the ancient death cult known as the Brotherhood of Baktuun, terrorizes New York City with a series of high-profile murders accomplished by mysterious means. Seven million souls are at his mercy as his outrages mount in dizzying succession. The police, constrained by legal niceties and endless red tape, seem powerless to thwart his mad schemes. Enter Wayne Saxon, millionaire sportsman and world traveler, who devotes his life to running the Eye to earth. He works within the law when possible, but without it when necessary. Will he succeed? There's a thrill on every page of this baffling mystery.
Download or read book Dime detective magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dime Detective written by Randy Chandler and published by Red Room Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When barroom bouncer Joe Dall's ex-wife is murdered, he finds himself pressed into service as a novice private eye. Something very dark and deadly lurks in the lush shadows of the sleepy Florida town and if he can't unmask the killer soon, others close to Joe will die. Working on a powerful client's dime, Joe Dall's first case could be his last. “To find a wonderful example of hardboiled detective noir today, you need not look any further than Randy Chandler's latest novel Dime Detective ... Dime Detective is both an homage and a love letter to the genre, but in many ways, an interesting and original departure.” --Hellbound Times. "The new breed of retro authors isn't getting paid by the word and, therefore, isn't padding thin stories; instead, they're crafting their books with considerable care and quality, and this novel is every bit a winner. Chandler introduces PI Joe Dall in a slick, atmospheric work that captures the underbelly of the 1950s with a sharp eye for detail and a flair for the sinister. The Deep South, voodoo, bad cops, a depraved movie star, and a glamorous, gun-toting sidekick—all add their share of pulpy ambience in this first-rate debut." -- Booklist "From Dot Barker, a kind of big sister, to Valentine Cooper and her shotgun, Chandler's characters go beyond the stereotypical dames, dolls, and broads that filled the pulps for a cast of strong, multidimensional, and entertaining characters. Readers can only hope to see them again in a sequel." --Foreword Magazine
