Paul Cain
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»Totschlag" ist eines der raren Werke des Hardboiled-Poeten Paul Cain, der Ende der zwanziger einen kurzen kometenhaften Aufstieg als Pulp-Autor erlebte, bevor er in den Regalen der Antiquariate verschwand. Seine Stories und Romane erschienen in dem legendären Pulp-Magazin Black Mask, in dem auch Dashiell Hammett und Raymond Chandler ihre Karrieren begannen. Cains Figuren sind Betrüger, heruntergekommene Privatdetektive, Bodyguards, versoffene...
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Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain's stories are classics of his genre. The protagonists of ambiguous morality who populate Cain's work are portrayed with a cinematic flair for the grim hardness of their world. Fast One, Cain's only novel, was originally serialized in Black Mask in the 1930s. It introduces us to Gerry Kells, a hard-nosed criminal who...
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Blackstone Publishing
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Tough gumshoes, rotten yeggs, and dangerous dames
In the 1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now comes this series in which the toughest of tough detectives are resurrected from its pages in sonic dramatization
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