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Dames, Booze, Guns & Gumshoes: Classic Pulp Crime and Noir Stories
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617209826
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 13 2013
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Edited by Trent Zelazny, Dames, Booze, Guns & Gumshoes is a hard-edged anthology of classic pulp crime, noir fiction, private-eye stories, and dangerous mid-century shadows. Bringing together David Goodis, Robert Leslie Bellem, Hugh B. Cave, Julius Long, Carroll John Daly, William E. Barrett, Steve Fisher, Robert E. Howard, John D. MacDonald, Richard S. Prather, Cornell Woolrich, and other sharp voices from the crime and pulp tradition, this collection delivers the old machinery of noir at full speed: dames with secrets, booze-soaked desperation, guns in the dark, and gumshoes following trouble down streets where nobody walks away clean.
These stories belong to the world of cheap rooms, smoky bars, desperate jobs, criminal schemes, false promises, and last chances gone bad. Some lean hard-boiled, some move through private-eye territory, some descend into full noir fatalism, but all carry the velocity and pressure of classic pulp storytelling. For readers of vintage crime fiction, detective anthologies, Black Mask-style fiction, paperback noir, pulp magazines, and mid-century American suspense, Dames, Booze, Guns & Gumshoes offers a broad, brutal, entertaining survey of the writers who helped shape the darker side of popular crime fiction.
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