Guns, Dames and Private Eyes (eBook)

The Rivals of Philip Marlowe - Stories from the Golden Age of the American Pulp Magazines

Nick Rennison (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
320 Seiten
No Exit Press (Verlag)
978-0-85730-539-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The prototypes of Raymond Chandler's immortal private detective Philip Marlowe first appeared in a magazine called Black Mask in the 1930s. Black Mask was not the only pulp magazine of the period to publish crime fiction. There were newsstands full of them with titles like Dime Detective, Spicy Mystery Stories and Ten Detective Aces. And there were plenty of other private eyes in action. This was the era in which the hard-boiled American detective was born and Nick Rennison's anthology gathers an exciting selection of stories about the rivals of Philip Marlowe.
From the intriguingly named Cellini Smith to the two-fisted female crime-solver Violet McDade, from the crime reporter Johnny Castle to the quick-witted, fast-shooting Marty Quade, these characters have their own style and originality. Authors like Norbert Davis, reputedly the favourite crime author of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cleve F. Adams and Robert Reeves may not have the reputations of Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, another famous name who began his career writing for the pulps, but they knew how to tell a thrilling story. They deserve to be remembered and admired, and this collection highlights more than a dozen of them.

Autor

NICK RENNISON is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He is the editor of six anthologies of short stories for No Exit Press: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The Rivals of Dracula, Supernatural Sherlocks, More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock's Sisters and American Sherlocks, plus A Short History of Polar Exploration, Peter Mark Roget: A Biography, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Robin Hood: Myth, History & Culture and Bohemian London, published by Oldcastle Books. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His crime novels, Carver's Quest and Carver's Truth, both set in nineteenth-century London, are published by Corvus. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2030
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1922 scenes from a turbulent year • 1930s crime fiction • American crime fiction • American Literature • Anthology • Black Mask • Cellini Smith • classic crime fiction • Dashiell Hammett • Detective stories • Dime Detective • female detective • Golden Age • hard-boiled crime • historical detective • historical fiction • Jo Gar • Marty Quade • nick rennison • No Exit Press • Norbert Davis • Oldcastle Books • Philip Marlowe • Pi • Private Detective • Private Eye • private investigator • Pulp Fiction • pulp magazine • Raoul Whitfield • Raymond Chandler • rivals of sherlock holmes • Robert Reeves • Sherlock Holmes • twentieth century fiction • Violet McDade
• ISBN-10: 0-85730-539-5 / 0857305395
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85730-539-8 / 9780857305398