Paperback Confidential: Crime Writers of the Paperback Era - Softcover

Ritt, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933586613 ISBN 13: 9781933586618

Publisher: Stark House Press, 2013

Synopsis

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. Each profile contains details about the author's life and explores key works; also covered are screenplay and teleplay work, as well as movies based on the authors' stories.

About this title

About the Author

: Brian Ritt grew up in Southern California, stomping ground of Raymond Chandler. From an early age, he developed a love for the culture of earlier eras: black-and-white movies, pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, old time radio. Throughout his teen years, he pursued an interest in competitive surfing, traveling up and down the California coast. He has written about vintage paperbacks for Paperback Parade, The Paperback Fanatic, and contributed an introduction to Stark House's Orrie Hitt omnibus. Ritt lives in Burbank, California.

From the Inside Flap

These are the authors who turned out the dark noirs and hardboiled thrillers, private detective puzzles and psychological suspense, police procedurals and backwood melodramas, stories of passion and cold-blooded murder. 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... and the unjustly forgotten like Malcolm Braly, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Ennis Willie and Douglas Sanderson.Each profile contains details about the author's life and explores key works, with special attention paid to series characters. Also covered are screenplay and teleplay work, as well as movies based on the authors' stories.Paperback Confidential also includes a handy PseudoDex with all the various names these authors wrote under, and a section for each author with further recommendations for the reader's consideration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stark House Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933586613
• ISBN 13: 9781933586618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344