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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Patricia Wentworth, on writing:

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write.

This is very different from wanting to be a writer.

To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young.

But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

- Patricia Wentworth.

Pulp Fiction: The Dames

Pulp Fiction: The Dames

Omnibus.

Edited by Otto Penzler.

Introduced by Laura Lippman.

Published 2008.

Published by Quercus.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1847242316

ISBN-13: 978-1847242310

Description:

Laura Lippman introduces 23 dames, femmes fatales, avenging angels, broads, molls and dolls from the golden age of pulp fiction and the dawn of modern crime writing.

From Sally the Sleuth to The Girl Who Knew Too Much, these women knew how to steal a guy’s heart – or his gun – and they weren’t afraid to use their fists if their charms couldn’t get them what they wanted. Risking their lives and ending others, these dames are certain to set your heart racing, whether you’re a pulp novice or a hard-boiled fan.

With stories from Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich and Dashiell Hammett, and a strip cartoon from Adolphe Barreau, Pulp Fiction: The Dames shows that some writing has an edge that time just can’t dull.

Contents: Preface, by Otto Penzler; Introduction, by Laura Lippman; Angel Face, by Cornell Woolrich; Chosen to Die, by Leslie T. White; A Pinch of Snuff, by Eric Taylor; Killer in the Rain, by Montanye; Snowbound, by C. B. Yorke; The Girl Who Knew Too Much, by Randolph Barr; The Corpse in the Crystal, by D. B. McCandless; He Got What He Asked For, by D. B. McCandless; Gangster's Brand, by P. T. Luman; Dance Macabre, by Robert Reeves; The Girl with the Silver Eyes, by Dashiell Hammett; The Jane from Hell's Kitchen, by Perry Paul; The Duchess Pulls a Fast One, by Whitman Chambers; Mansion of Death, by Roger Torrey; Concealed Weapon, by Roger Torrey; The Devil's Bookkeeper, by Carlos Martinez; Black Legion, by Lars Anderson; Three Wise Men of Babylon, by Richard Sale; The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon, by Eugene Thomas; Brother Murder, by T. T. Flynn; Kindly Omit Flowers, by Stewart Sterling.

Collect books and build your home library:

You know you're a bookworm when your ultimate goal in life is to have you own special library in your house.

Born on this day – Lynne Overman:

Lynne Overman

Actor

September 19, 1887 – February 19, 1943

Credits:

The Desert Song (1943); Dixie (1943); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Silver Queen (1942); The Forest Rangers (1942); Reap the Wild Wind (1942); Roxie Hart (1942); New York Town (1941); Aloma of the South Seas (1941); Caught in the Draft (1941); The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941); North West Mounted Police (1940); Safari (1940); Edison, the Man (1940); Typhoon (1940); Death of a Champion (1939); Union Pacific (1939); Hiding (1939); Ride a Crooked Mile (1938); Sons of the Legion (1938); Spawn of the North (1938); Men with Wings (1938); Hunted Men (1938); Her Jungle Love (1938); The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938); True Confession (1937); Night Club Scandal (1937); Partners in Crime (1937); Blonde Trouble (1937); Wild Money (1937); Hotel Haywire (1937); Nobody's Baby (1937); Murder Goes to College (1937); Don't Tell the Wife (1937); The Jungle Princess (1936); Three Married Men (1936); Yours for the Asking (1936); Poppy (1936); Collegiate (1936); Two for Tonight (1935); Men Without Names (1935); Paris in Spring (1935); Rumba (1935); Enter Madame! (1934); Broadway Bill (1934); You Belong to Me (1934); She Loves Me Not (1934); The Great Flirtation (1934); Little Miss Marker (1934); Midnight (1934); Around the Clock (1934); The Poor Fish (1933); Five Minutes from the Station (1930); Kisses (1929); The Perfect Crime (1928).