Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era
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... the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and Charles Williams... and the unjustly forgotten 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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Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era
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... the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and Charles Williams... and the unjustly forgotten 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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Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era

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Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era

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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... the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and Charles Williams... and the unjustly forgotten 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.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940162155553
Publisher: Stark House Press
Publication date: 05/04/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Brian Ritt grew up in Southern California. From an early age, he developed a love for the culture of earlier eras: black-and-white movies, pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, old time radio. Throughout his teen years, he pursued an interest in competitive surfing, and has also spent time as an elementary school teacher. Ritt has written about vintage paperbacks for Paperback Parade, and The Paperback Fanatic.
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