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Homicide Johnny: A Hardboiled Detective Novel
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627551014
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: May 12 2013
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Homicide Johnny is a hardboiled murder novel from Steve Fisher, one of the pulp writers who helped move American crime fiction toward a darker, more emotional noir style. Homicide detective Johnny West is called in after newspaper columnist Harry Waters is murdered-a man whose columns had ruined more than one reputation and left behind no shortage of enemies. What begins as a murder inquiry widens into a chain of violence, suspicion, and pressure, with Johnny forced to follow the damage through a world where public scandal and private vengeance are already dangerously close.
First published by Mystery House in 1940 under Fisher's Stephen Gould pseudonym, Homicide Johnny belongs to the same crime-writing world that produced I Wake Up Screaming, No House Limit, and Fisher's major work in Black Mask. Fisher's fiction is less purely mechanical than some hardboiled mystery; he brings atmosphere, anxiety, and psychological pressure to the form, making the crimes feel less like puzzles than eruptions from a corrupt social world.
For readers of vintage noir, hardboiled detective fiction, pulp crime novels, and mid-century American mystery, Homicide Johnny is a lean, fast-moving example of Fisher's early crime work: tough, shadowed, and driven by the sense that murder is rarely isolated from the society that produces it.
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