Author: W T Ballard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
For more than 20 years, detectives and criminals found a home in the pages of Thrilling Detective. This fifth volume in the popular series collects seven vintage pulp novels and stories from the tattered pages of the classic detective pulp from W.T. Ballard, D.L. Champion, C.S. Montanye, G.T. Fleming-Roberts and more . Reset in an easy-to-read font, with new introductions, and including the original illustrations!
Thrilling Detective Pulp Tales Volume 5
Author: W T Ballard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
For more than 20 years, detectives and criminals found a home in the pages of Thrilling Detective. This fifth volume in the popular series collects seven vintage pulp novels and stories from the tattered pages of the classic detective pulp from W.T. Ballard, D.L. Champion, C.S. Montanye, G.T. Fleming-Roberts and more . Reset in an easy-to-read font, with new introductions, and including the original illustrations!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
For more than 20 years, detectives and criminals found a home in the pages of Thrilling Detective. This fifth volume in the popular series collects seven vintage pulp novels and stories from the tattered pages of the classic detective pulp from W.T. Ballard, D.L. Champion, C.S. Montanye, G.T. Fleming-Roberts and more . Reset in an easy-to-read font, with new introductions, and including the original illustrations!
Thrilling Detective Heroes
Author: John Locke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597980760
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the '30s through the '50s, madmen, mayhem, and murder ruled the malignant world of the thrilling detective pulps. To the rescue came a succession of intrepid investigators fearing nothing but injustice. These were the Thrilling Detective Heroes. Some of their names are legend in pulpdom. Most of them remain to be discovered in this collection of colorful tales taken from Thrilling's flagship detective pulps, Thrilling Detective and Popular Detective. Each story features a series hero in one of his most entertaining exploits. The detectives range from the flamboyant figures of the '30s to the hardboiled, hard-bitten private dicks of the late '40s. Accompanying each story is a tribute to the life and works of the author.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597980760
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the '30s through the '50s, madmen, mayhem, and murder ruled the malignant world of the thrilling detective pulps. To the rescue came a succession of intrepid investigators fearing nothing but injustice. These were the Thrilling Detective Heroes. Some of their names are legend in pulpdom. Most of them remain to be discovered in this collection of colorful tales taken from Thrilling's flagship detective pulps, Thrilling Detective and Popular Detective. Each story features a series hero in one of his most entertaining exploits. The detectives range from the flamboyant figures of the '30s to the hardboiled, hard-bitten private dicks of the late '40s. Accompanying each story is a tribute to the life and works of the author.
Halo for Hire
Author: Howard Browne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893887695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893887695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Complete Cases of Max Latin
Author: Norbert Davis
Publisher: Steeger Properties, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Back in print! Enjoy the adventures of Max Latin, the detective who doesn't want to be a detective! Author Norbert Davis mixed the classic hard-boiled style with humor, making Max Latin unique in pulp fiction. Appearing for only five stories in Dime Detective, this new edition includes an authoritative introduction by Bob Byrne.
Publisher: Steeger Properties, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Back in print! Enjoy the adventures of Max Latin, the detective who doesn't want to be a detective! Author Norbert Davis mixed the classic hard-boiled style with humor, making Max Latin unique in pulp fiction. Appearing for only five stories in Dime Detective, this new edition includes an authoritative introduction by Bob Byrne.
The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action
Author: Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841192888
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides - pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attomeys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature's best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 9781841192888
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides - pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attomeys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature's best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...
Knights of the Open Palm
Author: Carroll John Daly
Publisher: Steeger Properties, LLC
ISBN: 8827516301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Steeger Properties, LLC
ISBN: 8827516301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
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.
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories
Author: Patricia Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192829689
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192829689
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
The Mouse in the Mountain
Author: Norbert Davis
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Doan is a detective and Carstairs his enormous canine companion (don't call him a "pet"), and in this first hard-boiled adventure they travel to Mexico, along with an heiress, a revolutionary, an artist, and more than a few mysteries.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Doan is a detective and Carstairs his enormous canine companion (don't call him a "pet"), and in this first hard-boiled adventure they travel to Mexico, along with an heiress, a revolutionary, an artist, and more than a few mysteries.
The Big Book of Female Detectives
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0525434755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2582
Book Description
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0525434755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2582
Book Description
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.
Mystery Fanfare
Author: Michael L. Cook
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722302
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722302
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.