Pure Pulp

by Gorman, Edward; Greenberg, Martin Harry; Pronzini, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780786707003
• ISBN10: 0786707003
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Pulp magazines like Dime Detective and Crime Busters flourished in America between 1920 and 1950. Their purpose was only to entertain, yet they produced such giants in crime fiction as Robert Bloch, Frederic Brown, John Jakes, Leigh Brackett, and John D. MacDonald, all of whom feature in this new anthology.

So are Ed McBain, Mickey Spillane, Vin Packer, Donald Westlake, Dorothy B. Hughes, Helen Nielsen, David Goodis, Evan Hunter, and two dozen tough-writing others whose stories appeared in the more artful The Saint, Manhunt, Verdict, and Tightrope as well as Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazines. With their moody, atmospheric plots and psychological depth, the pulp fiction in this volume shaped the modern crime story as we know it today.

Pick this anthology of pure pulp up. You won't put it down.

Table of Contents

Obit for Obie	1	(51)
Fredric Brown
The Scarlet King	52	(11)
Evan Hunter
The Devil's Printer	63	(18)
Donald E. Westlake
Interference	81	(8)
Glenn Canary
Pay-Off Girl	89	(9)
James M. Cain
The Losing Percentage	98	(12)
Jeffrey M. Wallmann
Design for Dying	110	(30)
Leigh Brackett
Man in the Dark	140	(34)
Howard Browne
Everybody Has to Die	174	(15)
William P. McGivern
Guys and Dolls	189	(7)
Margaret Maron
Winter Run	196	(13)
Edward D. Hoch
The Innocent Victims	209	(14)
John D. MacDonald
Tourist	223	(10)
Joe L. Hensley
Viking Blood	233	(41)
Dennis Lynds
She Asked For It	274	(30)
Fletcher Flora
It's a Wise Cadaver	304	(7)
David Goodis
The Master of the Hounds	311	(26)
Algis Budrys
Homecoming	337	(11)
Dorothy B. Hughes
Bleed for Me	348	(12)
John Jakes
Fast Burn	360	(16)
Loren D. Estleman
A Fire at Night	376	(4)
Lawrence Block
Walk Across My Grave	380	(14)
Norbert Davis
Death Scene	394	(11)
Helen Neilsen
The Steinway Collection	405	(13)
Robert J. Randisi
The Box	418
Peter Rabe