Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories: Expanded Edition - Softcover

Brewer, Gil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944520767 ISBN 13: 9781944520762

Verlag: Stark House Press, 2019

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REDHEADS DIE QUICKLY Gil Brewer, the frantic master of compulsive noir fiction—the man of whom author/editor Ed Gorman once said, “at his best, he hooked you in the first paragraph and never let you go.” According to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, “Brewer marinated crime and lust together in the humid Florida heat to produce stories of sexual hunger, obsession, and predation.” Presented here are thirty of his best Florida stories, direct from the pages of Manhunt, Pursuit, Detective Tales and other great mystery magazines of the 1950s and 60s. Brewer contributed prolifically to the pulp outlets of the day, turning out everything from hardboiled crime tales to pornographic fantasies. He published over 100 stories and 50 novels from 1951 to 1976 under his own name and at least 13 pseudonyms (including an Ellery Queen novel). Originally published in 2012 by University Press of Florida, this new Stark House edition of Redheads Die Quickly includes five stories left out of the first edition, including the novelette “Meet Me in the Dark.” They are, as crime writer Dave Zeltserman referenced them, “hard-boiled gems, with each story wilder than the next.”

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Gil Brewer was born Nov. 20, 1922 in Canandaigua, NY. After leaving the army at the end of WWII, he joined his family who had settled in St. Petersburg, Florida. There he met Verlaine in 1947 and married her soon after. Brewer started by writing serious novels, but soon turned to paperback originals after a sale to Gold Medal Books in 1950. At his height, he was a brilliant writer of sharply defined noir thrillers, usually involving a male protagonist driven to crime by the sexual allure of a young siren. But unwilling to promote himself, his career took a turn for the worse after a mental breakdown, and a long decline into alcoholism. Brewer died on Jan. 9, 1983.

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Gil Brewer, the frantic master of compulsive noir fiction the man of whom author/editor Ed Gorman once said, at his best, he hooked you in the first paragraph and never let you go. According to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, Brewer marinated crime and lust together in the humid Florida heat to produce stories of sexual hunger, obsession, and predation. Presented here are thirty of his best Florida stories, direct from the pages of Manhunt, Pursuit, Detective Tales and other great mystery magazines of the 1950s and 60s. Brewer contributed prolifically to the pulp outlets of the day, turning out everything from hardboiled crime tales to pornographic fantasies. He published over 100 stories and 50 novels from 1951 to 1976 under his own name and at least 13 pseudonyms (including an Ellery Queen novel). Originally published in 2012 by University Press of Florida, this new Stark House edition of Redheads Die Quickly includes five stories left out of the first edition, including the novelette Meet Me in the Dark. They are, as crime writer Dave Zeltserman referenced them, hard-boiled gems, with each story wilder than the next.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Stark House Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1944520767
• ISBN 13: 9781944520762
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Herausgeber: Rachels David
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