I was at the seventh annual Fantastic Pulps Shows and Sale
here in Toronto on Saturday. There weren't that mystery pulps
(nice mix of all the others, though), and I didn't pick up
any BLACK MASKs. I did get a TEN DETECTIVE ACES (December
1947), and I look forward to reading "Graveside Showdown" by
Norman A. Daniels: "Detective Nolan doubles for his client
and finds himself on the receiving end of a hot-lead
shipment." MANHUNT seems to be selling pretty dear, but I got
the August 1953 issue (Vol. 1, No. 8) for a sawbuck. Cover
story is "The Two O'Clock Blonde," by James M. Cain, and
other stories are by Fredric Brown, Frank Kane, Donald
Hamilton, and Evan Hunter, among others.
I picked up some paperbacks: Frank Gruber's THE LAUGHING FOX,
THE LIMPING GOOSE, THE GAMECOCK MURDERS (aka THE SCARLET
FEATHER), and DIE LIKE A DOG
(aka THE HUNGRY DOG), all Johnny Fletcher stories; VIOLENT
SATURDAY, by W.L. Heath; DAN TURNER, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE, an
anthology edited by John Wooley (who's doing another one due
later this year); and THE PRIVATE EYE, by Cleve F.
Adams.
I got the last one because I remembered Adams being discussed
on the list, but unfortunately, I see this in the archives
from Mr. Glenewinkel:
| Over the last five years or so I have started three of his
books
| (The Private Eye, Contraband and a few days ago, after he
was compared
| with Huggins in this group, Sabotage) but never came
further than
| about 30 or 50 pages because I was so utterly bored.
--
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200005/0426.html
But how can you pass up something with this on the back
cover? "The town of Las Cruces was enjoying booming business
in vice when J.J. Shannon, a hardboiled private cop, moved in
to check a fishy suicide. But when he kidnapped the mayor,
caught the police chief in a bribe trap, and managed to get
control of the local paper in a fight for justice, he blew
the lid off this lawless mining town. Shannon had to dodge
lead from a dozen racketeers while he used three beautiful,
dangerous dames to trap a cunning syndicate killer!"
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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