[PDF] The Snarl Of The Beast The Collected Hard Boiled Stories Of Race Williams Volume 2 eBook

Author : Carroll John Daly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
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ISBN : 9781618272720

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Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask Magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective P.I. story and perfected the genre with his classic character, Race Williams. Apart from the novel-length Race Williams stories, these classic hard-boiled thrillers have rarely been reprinted, if ever.Volume 2 contains the next batch of Race Williams stories, all from 1927?29 as Daly broke the mold of Black Mask by running serialized novels in the pages of that important magazine. Included here are ?The Snarl of the Beast,? ?The Egyptian Lure,? ?The Hidden Hand,? and ?The Tag Murders.'Additional editorial pieces are also included: Daly's own ?Putting Over a Detective Novel? was written to explain his working process while writing ?The Snarl of the Beast. And it's prefaced by an all-new, scholarly introduction by Professor Brooks E. Hefner of James Madison University.The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Volume 2 continues this most important series published in years on the history of the Hard-Boiled Detective story.

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231556551

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Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as “difficult” become familiar to audiences? In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. He shows that since the nineteenth century, detective stories and suspense thrillers have allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative. Tales of crime and mystery became a training ground where audiences learned to appreciate artifice. These genres demand a sophisticated awareness of storytelling conventions: they play games with narrative form and toy with audience expectations. Bordwell examines how writers and directors have pushed, pulled, and collaborated with their audiences to change popular storytelling. He explores the plot engineering of figures such as Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy Sayers, and Quentin Tarantino, and traces how mainstream storytellers and modernist experimenters influenced one another’s work. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how movies, literature, theater, and popular culture have evolved over the past century.

Author : Carroll John Daly
Publisher : Steeger Properties, LLC
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2017-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8827516301

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The first hard-boiled detective Race Williams, runs up against the Klan in his premiere adventure, which leads him to fast and tragic action. Plus two other early Daly hard-boiled classics: "The False Burton Combs" and "Dolly." Story #1 in the Race Williams series. Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op story by several months. Daly's classic character, Race Williams, was one of the most popular fiction characters of the pulps, and the direct inspiration for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Author : Milton Shaw
Publisher : Black Mask
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618274199

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Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw enjoyed several distinguished careers-military man and champion fencer, among them-before he assumed the editorial chair of the most significant fiction magazine since The Strand gave the world the immortal Sherlock Holmes. Between 1926 and 1936, Shaw edited Black Mask magazine. The pioneering first stories of Carroll John Daly and Dashiell Hammett had just begun to appear in its pages. Shaw recognized in their hard-boiled treatment of the American crime story the potential for a new literary school. Working closely with his hand-picked writers, he pulled the magazine back from the brink of cancellation, and transformed the staid detective story into a vigorous and modern genre, discovering and championing important inheritors of this new tradition, among them, Raymond Chandler.But there is more to Joe Shaw than his editorial career. Here, in the first biography ever written of this editorial giant, his son relates the full fascinating story of the man behind the revolutionary editorial persona....

Author : Carroll John Daly
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1789129931

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Better Corpses first published in 1940, is a classic hard-boiled detective murder mystery featuring private investigator Race Williams. Williams, operating midway between the police and the criminal world, is called to aid Mary Morse, wealthy heiress to a long-established New York jewelry business, who is being threatened with blackmail by a ruthless gang. Carroll John Daly (1889-1958), considered one of the pioneers of the hard-boiled crime genre, authored 16 novels and a number of short stories. Better Corpses is book no. 8 in the Race Williams series.

Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230107354

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Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.

Author : Alice Kimberly
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101010460

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When a visiting author is murdered, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion must spook out the devious killer in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly. The only rule bookshop owner and widow Penelope Thornton-McClure has given ghostly hard boiled P.I. Jack Shepard is to not haunt the customers. But when hot, young author Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her latest, a true crime novel, Jack can hardly contain himself. After all, this is his specialty! Angel’s book is an unsolved mystery about a debutante found strangled to death. And it’s filled with juicy details that point a finger at a number of people in the deb’s high society circle. But when the author winds up dead too—in precisely the same way—Pen is fast on the case...which means Jack is too. After all, a ghost detective never rests in peace.

Author : E. C. Bentley
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2001-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075511583X

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A scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his country house. Why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? 'The Lady in Black', has a disarming effect on the refreshingly fallible and imaginative Trent, in this classic detective story that twists and turns.

Author : Betty MacDonald
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1987-08-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0060914289

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When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall—through chaos and catastrophe—this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.