Private Chauffeur: A Vintage Noir Novel of Desire, Deception, and Domestic Corruption - Softcover

De Mexico, N. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627553657 ISBN 13: 9781627553650

Verlag: Black Curtain Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Private Chauffeur is a tense mid-century crime novel of desire, deception, compromised respectability, and private ruin. Gary Heaslip, a grounded former pilot haunted by the air disaster that ended his career, takes work as a chauffeur in Montauk and is quickly drawn into the affairs of Dolores Carter, her doctor husband Ivan, and Ivan's mistress, Erica. What begins as employment becomes a trap of jealousy, seduction, wounded pride, and concealed motives. N. R. De Mexico's novel moves through the dangerous space between crime fiction, psychological suspense, and hard-boiled domestic melodrama. The chauffeur is not merely a servant or observer but a charged presence inside a household already poisoned by betrayal. As schemes tighten and desire clouds judgement, the book exposes the unease beneath wealth, marriage, sex, and social performance. For readers of vintage noir, paperback-original crime fiction, and psychologically sharp mid-century suspense, Private Chauffeur is a compact, unsettling example of Black Curtain fiction at its most intimate and corrupt.

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N. R. De Mexico was the pseudonym of Robert Campbell Bragg, a Greenwich Village writer associated with the bohemian literary world of the early 1950s and reportedly known to friends as "Bob De Mexico." His short body of work includes Marijuana Girl, Madman on a Drum, and Private Chauffeur, novels that move between pulp crime, social transgression, psychological suspense, and the darker edges of mid-century American life. Long obscure and often discussed among collectors of paperback-original crime fiction, De Mexico's work has gained renewed interest for its unusual tonal range, its sharp handling of damaged characters, and its place in the wilder margins of vintage noir and crime publishing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Black Curtain Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1627553657
• ISBN 13: 9781627553650
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
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