Seven Slayers: Classic Hardboiled Crime Stories - Softcover

Cain, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162755095X ISBN 13: 9781627550956

Verlag: Black Curtain Press, 2013

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A collection of hard-edged crime stories associated with the early development of American noir, attributed to Paul Cain. These stories reflect the terse, stripped-down style that defined the transition from pulp crime fiction to a more modern hardboiled form, emphasizing action, moral ambiguity, and abrupt violence. The narratives are marked by their economy of language and their focus on professional criminals, investigators, and figures operating at the margins of legality. Dialogue is direct, scenes are tightly constructed, and outcomes are often unresolved or uncompromising, aligning the work with the emerging noir sensibility of the 1930s and 1940s. This edition presents the collected stories in a clear and consistent format, preserving their original tone while providing a stable modern typesetting for contemporary readers.

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Paul Cain was the pen name of George Caryl Sims (1902-1966), an American pulp writer and screenwriter whose small body of work left a lasting mark on hard-boiled crime fiction. Writing as Paul Cain, he became associated with Black Mask, the magazine that helped define the American hard-boiled tradition. His fiction is known for its violent momentum, emotional coldness, stripped-down prose, and refusal to soften the world it depicts. Cain wrote only one novel, Fast One, but its reputation has grown steadily among readers and critics of pulp crime, noir fiction, and early twentieth-century American gangster literature.Cain also worked in Hollywood under the name Peter Ruric, contributing to screenplays including the 1934 horror film The Black Cat. His fiction often follows men on the wrong side of the law rather than conventional detectives, giving his work a darker and more fatalistic edge than many crime stories of the period. Fast One, first serialized in Black Mask and then published as a novel in 1933, remains his central achievement: a cold, rapid, violent masterpiece of the ultra-hard-boiled school and a key title for readers interested in Black Mask fiction, American noir, Los Angeles crime fiction, and the development of modern hard-boiled style.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black Curtain Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 162755095X
• ISBN 13: 9781627550956
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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