I picked up an interesting book today: TRUE CRIME, TRUE
NORTH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF CANADIAN PULP MAGAZINES, by Carolyn
Strange and Tina Loo
(Vancouver: Raincoast, 2004). It's about true crime pulps
from the 1940s and 1950s. I don't know anything about them
(yet), but they've been discussed here as a place to find
hardboiled nonfiction, which is a fairly rare bird.
The book's about 7" x 10", and short at just over 100 pages.
The bibliography mentions Lee Server's DANGER IS MY BUSINESS
and Eddie Muller's DARK CITY DAMES. There are illustrations
on almost every page, and lots of cover reproductions.
Any of you an afficionado of old true crime pulps? What's the
writing like? I know Jim Thompson did some work in them, but
I've never read any of it.
Bill
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