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Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1944 and 1945 issues of Speed Detective. Included in this book are: Coffin Frame, Gun From Gotham, Stock Shot, Stars Die at Night, Trump for the Ace, Morgue Case, Snatch Buster, Suicide Stunt, Dolly Shot, Funeral Fade-Out.
A FICTION HOUSE PRESS REPRINT: Another bookful of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective stories from 1942 issues of Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are: Beyond Justice, Death on Location, Gas-House Still, Murder Done Twice, Murderer's Error, Murder for Fame, Star Chamber, Broken Melody, The Color of Murder, Daughter of Murder, Killer's Union, and Malibu Mess. Illustrated.
Eight stories featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, from Spicy Detective and Speed Detective pulp magazines. "Temporary Corpse", "Death's Bright Halo", "Beyond Justice", "Dark Star of Death", "Blackmail From Beyond", "Crimson Quest", "Cat Act", and "Latin Blood".
Another bookful of Dan Turner stories from 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, and 1943 issues of Spicy Detective Stories, Speed Detective, and Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are: Dead Man's Head, Falling Star, Silverscreen Spectre, Veiled Lady, Death's Passport, Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead, Star Chamber, Riddle in the Rain, Sleeping Dogs, and Sing a Song of Murder.
That washed-up movie-director was going to knock himself off in order to give his no-good bride a double-indemnity payoff—and, Dan Turner, trying to do a couple of good deeds, found himself facing a murder rap with some very hard gunsels making it tough!
He had a hunch there’d be trouble tonight. Men getting hurt: himself among them, maybe. He advanced on the platform. The hall hummed with an electrical tension he could feel almost physically, like a warning touch. It was something to make you afraid if you were a coward. Or to make you all the more steadfast if you believed in your message, as Shell Macklin did. His friend Dave Obrowski from the stockroom of the Amalgamated Motors plant was introducing him. Doing a loud job of it. A little too loud: “Our next speaker is a man we all know and respect. Nobody could call him un-American; his father fought in the war to save democracy. He’s been in the machine tool division of Amalgamated Motors eight loyal years . . .”
That bogus postman brought Dan Turner a splendid solid whack with a blackjack and it was a highly special delivery—thereby involving the ace movietown hawkshaw with low killery and high finance and dangerous bafflement! . . . .
This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--but they always unravel the threads that the villains have woven into deceptive covers for their crimes. The detective does, in the end, produce a work of art: a narrative that explains everything that needs explanation. But the detective's moral work is often juxtaposed to the aesthetic work of the painters, poets, and writers that the detective encounters during an investigation. The author surveys this juxtaposition in works by important authors from the early development of the genre (Poe, Conan Doyle), the golden age (Bentley, Christie, Sayers, James, et al.), and the hard-boiled era (Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald, Spicer et al.).