Name of the Game is Death - Softcover

Marlowe, Dan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887390420 ISBN 13: 9780887390425

Publisher: Black Lizard Books, 1988

Synopsis

Roy Martin, a ruthless bank robber, is determined to find out who killed his partner and took the one hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars they stole from an Arizona bank

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Review:

"Beautifully tough-minded, tensely plotted, vigorous, first-rate story telling."-The New York Times Book Review "Nobody wrote tougher prose than Dan J. Marlowe. Nobody." -Barry Gifford "Hardest of the hard-boiled."-Stephen King

About the Author:

Dan J. Marlowe was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1914, the son of a printing press mechanic. He received an accounting certificate from Bentley School of Accounting and Finance in Boston in 1934, and lived alternately as a professional gambler and an office manager until 1956, when he decided to try his hand at writing. By the end of 1958 he had sold his first two books, featuring detective Johnny Killain. In 1962, Marlowe produced his masterpiece, The Name of the Game is Death, which so impressed a real bank robber, Al Nussbaum, that the two of them started corresponding and eventually became friends and collaborators. At the height of Marlowe’s career, having already won the 1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original, he suffered an attack of amnesia. Moving to Los Angeles with Nussbaum, he tried to regain his writing skills. He passed away of heart failure in Tarzana, Calif., in August of 1986.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Lizard Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0887390420
• ISBN 13: 9780887390425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144