The Dime Detectives [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Goulart, Ron

Verlag: The Mysterious Press, New York, 1988

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition speckled light brown boards, dark brown cloth spine, yellow spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Acknowledgments; Preliminary Page Quote by Dashiell Hammett; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and black-and-white drawings. "Between the dime novels of the late nineteenth century and the paperbacks of today, fans of popular literature turned to the pulp magazines for their entertainment. Printed on the cheapest possible paper, glued between lurid and colorful covers, the pulps achieved their heyday in the 1920s and 30s, before closing down in the 1950s. Their story is told in The Dime Detectives. In the rough-cut pages of the pulp magazine the chief American contribution to mystery fiction - the private detective - was born. The elegant British sleauth favored in earlier years gave way to a new breed of detective: wary, wisecracking, tough. In such magazines as Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly, Crimebusters, Thrilling Detective, Dime Detective, and Spicy Detective, such authors as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, John D. MacDonald, Hank Searls, and John Jakes first appeared. The Dime Detectives offers a scholarly overview of crime pulp history, through the eyes of author and pulp magazine historian Ron Goulart." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005738

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Dime Detectives [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...

Verlag: The Mysterious Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1988

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition