The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories
Author | : Herbert Van Thal |
Publisher | : Salem House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Herbert Van Thal |
Publisher | : Salem House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 870 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maxim Jakubowski |
Publisher | : C & R Crime |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2014-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147211180X |
Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America – Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors to the Victorian penny dreadfuls of writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens. These stories exemplify the best of crime and mystery pulp fiction – its zest, speed, rhythm, verve and commitment to straightforward storytelling – spanning seven decades of popular writing.
Author | : Mike Ashley |
Publisher | : Running Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780762442676 |
Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans crime from the Bronze Age to World War II, and will appeal to the current readers of The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and Best British Mysteries.
Author | : Bill Pronzini |
Publisher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : 9781841199047 |
With its roots in the American private detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private eye story remains as popular as ever. Here are 26 of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye.
Author | : Paul Gravett |
Publisher | : Running Press Adult |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2008-08-12 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : |
Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.
Author | : Stephen Jones |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1510723846 |
Thirty-five uncanny and erotic tales of vampires written by supernatural fiction’s greatest mistresses of the macabre. "Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on . . . Are you, like me, ready for the new dusk?" —Ingrid Pitt, from her Introduction Prepare to arm yourself with garlic, silver bullets, and a stake. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology that every vampire fan—vampiric feminist or not—will want to drink deep from. From the classic stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan, and Angela Slatter, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented Good to the unspeakably Evil. Among those memorable Children of the Night you will encounter are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson, and Freda Warrington’s age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and now revised and updated, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women fulfils the bloodlust of the somnambulist horror fan, delivering the ultimate bite.
Author | : Maxim Jakubowski |
Publisher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, American |
ISBN | : 9781841192888 |
We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides - pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attomeys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature's best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...
Author | : Maxim Jakubowski |
Publisher | : Running PressBook Pub |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780786710027 |
An entertaining assortment of comic mysteries and whodunits captures the zany misadventures and mishaps of bungling burglas, not-so-wise guys, and hit-or-miss assassins in works by Donald E. Westlake, Terry Pratchet, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Sarah Caudwell, Peter Lovesey, and other notable authors. Original.
Author | : Packages |
Publisher | : Packages |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2000-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780785818809 |
After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.
Author | : Marie Smith |
Publisher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : 9781854872968 |