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Paperback Confidential. Crime Writers Of The Paperback Era RITT, BRIAN [EDITED BY RICK OLLERMAN]

Paperback Confidential. Crime Writers Of The Paperback Era

RITT, BRIAN [EDITED BY RICK OLLERMAN]

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Publication: Stark House Press, 2013, Eureka

First Stark House Press edition. 8vo. Color, pictorial, stiff wrappers, 344 pp., introduction, illustrated, sources, pseudodex. 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback era from the 1930s through the 1960s. Here you will find information on the acknowledged masters like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Cornell Woolrich, the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and Charles Williams, along with the unjustly neglected like Malcolm Braly, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Ennis Willie and Douglas Sanderson. Fine copy without dust jacket, as issued.

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