Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era

Author:   Brian Ritt ,  Rick Ollerman
Publisher:   Stark House Press
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9781933586618


Pages:   346
Publication Date:   13 April 2016
Format:   Paperback
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PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era by Brian Ritt These are the authors who turned out the dark noirs and hardboiled thrillers, private detective puzzles and psychological suspense, police procedurals and backwood melodramas, stories of passion... and cold-blooded murder. 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s. Here you will find information on the acknowledged masters like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Cornell Woolrich....and the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene and Charles Williams...plus the more obscure, ripe for rediscovery, like Malcolm Braly, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Ennis Willie and Douglas Sanderson. Each profile contains details about the author's life and explores key works, with special attention paid to series characters. Also covered are screenplay and teleplay work, as well as movies based on the authors' stories. Paperback Confidential also includes a handy PseudoDex with all the various names these authors wrote under, and a section for each author with further recommendations for the reader's consideration.

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Author:   Brian Ritt ,  Rick Ollerman
Publisher:   Stark House Press
Imprint:   Stark House Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781933586618


ISBN 10:   1933586613
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   13 April 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Paperback Confidential, put together by Brian Ritt, is the latest and, in my opinion, the best encyclopaedia-reference book when it comes to paperback pulp writers. -Woody Haut's Blog Grab this one and set aside some time to get lost in it. I did. -Bill Crider, author A must for any fan and collector of crime fiction. -Gary Lovisi, author/publisher An essential reference work for anyone who's a fan of hardboiled and noir fiction. -James Reasoner, author


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