Download or read book Oliver Quade the Human Encyclopedia written by Frank Gruber and published by Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bulk of this book consists of 11 stories by Gruber from Black Mask, but it also includes an introduction by Kevin Burton Smith about Gruber's Oliver Quade series, as well as an afterword by Keith Alan Deutsch, under the heading, "Black Mask Crime Review", called "Frank Gruber, Hardboiled Humor, and the Noir Revolution". The final entry of the book goes under the heading, "Behind the Black Mask" and is a short excerpt from Black Mask (May 1939), called, "Frank Gruber reveals how he writes an Oliver Quade story!"
Download or read book Brass Knuckles written by Frank Gruber and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Golden Age Bibliomysteries An American Mystery Classic written by Otto Penzler and published by Penzler Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death Of crime fiction’s many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the “bibliomystery”: stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. In Vincent Starrett’s “A Volume of Poe,” a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen’s “The Adventure of the Three R’s,” the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author; and a killer stalks the stacks of the New York Public Library in Robert L. Blochman’s “Death Walks in Marble Halls.” With fourteen tales of bibliophilic transgression from the Golden Age of the mystery genre (the decades between the two World Wars), this volume collects stories guaranteed to entertain, featuring work from well-remembered authors such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher and from those that are lesser-known today, such as Carolyn Wells and James Gould Cozzens. Edgar Award-winning anthologist, editor, bookseller, and mystery scholar Otto Penzler has focused extensively on the history of the bibliomystery, and his expertise shines in this enjoyable collection—both in the selection of stories, and in the informative and illuminating introductions that accompany each one.
Download or read book The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this. Featuring • Deadly Diamonds • Dancing Rats • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk Including • Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published • Lester Dent's Luck in print for the first time
Download or read book The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best. Including: • Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett. • Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form. • A never before published Dashiell Hammett story. • Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many many more of whom you’ve probably never heard. • Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman Featuring: • Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. • A kid so smart–he’ll die of it. • A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger. • The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.
Download or read book The Hardboiled Dicks written by Ron Goulart and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Best Murder Story written by David Coxe Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western and Hard Boiled Detective Fiction in America written by Cynthia S. Hamilton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Mystery Lists written by Roger M Sobin and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Download or read book Pulp Culture written by Frank M. Robinson and published by Collectors Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp fiction' s lurid adventures were vividly reflected on the magazines' eye-catching covers. Hard-boiled dames, bizarre monsters, dicks and ' tecs, sinister villains, and muscled warriors all appeared each month to tempt readers out of their hard-earned dimes. This gorgeous full-color compilation features hundreds of the genre' s most thrilling covers and includes an index. Taken collectively, they provide a dazzling panorama of some 60 years of illustration and social commentary.
Download or read book Blue Ribbon written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers everything from prize animals to fair architecture to speeches to Pronto Pups.
Download or read book The Detective Short Story written by E. H. Mundell (Jr.) and published by Manhattan : Kansas State University Library. This book was released on 1974 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comprehensive Index to Black Mask 1920 1951 written by Edward R. Hagemann and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hagemann, for many years interested in the hard-boiled, tough-guy writers, has completed this comprehensive index to Black Mask magazine. A task that took many years as a labor of love, this study is a thorough and accurate index to a magazine that furnished a publishing place for many of the writers of hard-boiled detective fiction.
Download or read book The Pulp Jungle written by Frank Gruber and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Characters written by Dwight V. Swain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional characters Vibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us want to continue reading a novel or finish watching a movie. In Creating Characters, Dwight V. Swain shows how writers can invent interesting characters and improve them so that they move a story along. “The core of character,” he says in chapter 1, “lies in each individual story person’s ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly, that something is important.” Building on that foundation—the capacity to care—Swain takes the would-be writer step-by-step through the fundamentals of finding and developing “characters who turn you on.” This basic but thought-provoking how-to is a valuable tool for both the novice and the seasoned writer.
Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-10 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Armchair Detective written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
