Pulp Masters - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786708735 ISBN 13: 9780786708734

Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

Celebrates American pulp fiction, compiling five novellas and one complete novel from the first half of the twentieth century, including crime authors John D. MacDonald, Lawrence Block, and James M. Cain.

About this title

Synopsis:

Six masters of pulp fiction at its most powerful and suspenseful best -- John MacDonald, James M. Cain, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, Mickey Spillane, and Harrington Whittington -- distinguish this new anthology compiled by the award-winning editors of its two popular predecessors, American Pulp and Pure Pulp. Like them, Pulp Masters culls its tales -- in this case, six classic novelettes and one complete novel -- from the golden age of magazine fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. The writers included in this volume in time emerged as giants in the field of crime fiction, and the stories in this volume demonstrate why. Their voices fresh, their talents raw and original, with novelettes like "Ordo," "Stag Party Kill," "The Embezzler," and "Everybody's Watching Me," Westlake, Block, Cain, and Spillane both heralded and shaped the crime story as we know it today. So did "the King of the Paperback Original" -- Harrington Whittington -- represented here by the novel based on his pulp short story "So Dead, My Love. "

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786708735
• ISBN 13: 9780786708734
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Gorman Ed, Greenberg Martin