Author: Ron Goulart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892961917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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
The Dime Detectives
Author: Ron Goulart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892961917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892961917
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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
The Adventures Of Paul Pry
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755155335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
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.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755155335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
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.
The Dime
Author: Kathleen Kent
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316311065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
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
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316311065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
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
Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives
Author: Garyn G. Roberts
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This collection provides a concentrated sampling of female detective stories from the Old Sleuth serials.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This collection provides a concentrated sampling of female detective stories from the Old Sleuth serials.
The Dime Novel Detective
Author: Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.
Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Author: P. Bedore
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137288655
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137288655
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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.
The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes
Author: Robert Reeves
Publisher: Popular Publications
ISBN: 9781618276056
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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."
Publisher: Popular Publications
ISBN: 9781618276056
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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."
The Dime Box
Author: Karen Grose
Publisher: Notebook Publishing
ISBN: 9781913206239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A fast-paced and harrowing blend of murder mystery, family saga, betrayal and survival. Edge of your seat, with a sharp and jarring conclusion.
Publisher: Notebook Publishing
ISBN: 9781913206239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
A fast-paced and harrowing blend of murder mystery, family saga, betrayal and survival. Edge of your seat, with a sharp and jarring conclusion.
The Complete Cases of Inspector Allhoff, Volume 3
Author: D. L. Champion
Publisher: Popular Publications
ISBN: 9781618276162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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!"
Publisher: Popular Publications
ISBN: 9781618276162
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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!"
The Complete Cases of Bail-Bond Dodd
Author: Norbert Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618272003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Bailbondsman William "Bail-Bond" Dodd was the first series character that hard-boiled genius Norbert Davis created for Harry Steeger's best detective pulp. Running for eight installments, this unique series was one of the best Davis ever wrote for the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. As a bonus, this edition also includes the first story that Davis wrote for Dime Detective: "The Gin Monkey."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618272003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Bailbondsman William "Bail-Bond" Dodd was the first series character that hard-boiled genius Norbert Davis created for Harry Steeger's best detective pulp. Running for eight installments, this unique series was one of the best Davis ever wrote for the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. As a bonus, this edition also includes the first story that Davis wrote for Dime Detective: "The Gin Monkey."