Feature: Pulp Pages: Hardboiled and Noir Fiction
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Pulp Pages: "Brother Murder" by T.T. Flynn — "There’s a cold-blooded touch to murder..."
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Pulp Pages: "About Kid Deth" by Raoul Whitfield— “Like hell — they’ll get me!” he breathed.
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Pulp Pages: "The Duchess Pulls a Fast One" by Whitman Chambers
— “The Duchess,” a reporter for The Sun, could “produce hunches faster than a cigarette machine turns out coffin nails.”
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Pulp Pages: "Pigeon Blood" by Paul Cain— Though his output was small, Paul Cain reached a “high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner,” says Raymond Chandler.
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Pulp Pages: "Hell's Pay Check" by Frederick Nebel— Cardigan lowered his gun. "It’s damned funny that I can’t get a night’s sleep without you guys prowling around here like correspondence-school detectives."
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Pulp Pages: Bruno Fischer - "Smile, Corpse, Smile!"— Boy meets corpse, boy loses corpse... "I had never seen anything so unutterably lovely, and perhaps it was her loveliness that was so terrifying."
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Pulp Pages: Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson— "A novel of men wanted only by their women - AND THE LAW!"
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Pulp Pages: Pick-Up by Charles Willeford— “He holed up with a helpless lush. A story that builds to a shattering climax!”
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Pulp Pages: Black Friday by David Goodis— "It's Black Friday and for certain people it's a day that never ends. They carry it with them all the time. Like typhoid carriers..."
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Pulp Pages: "Something For The Sweeper" by Norbert Davis— He looked "as mysterious and hard-boiled as possible in view of the fact that his feet were hurting him more and more all the time.”
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Pulp Pages: Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich— “Now you know what it feels like. So how do you like it?”
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