Bullet from Nowhere, A Comet Passes, Cooked!, Million Buck Snatch (Illustrated): Dan Turner Hollywood Detective Vol. 1
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00UGHUXZE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Bullet from Nowhere," "A Comet Passes," "Cooked!," and "Million Buck Snatch" are from the January 1942 issue of "Dan Turner Hollywood Detective" magazine.. His most famous creation was the hardboiled detective Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, who narrates the stories in the first person in a racy, slangy style that made them very popular at the time. Robert Leslie Bellem was a prolific American writer who wrote in a variety of genres and for many pulp magazines, especially those of Culture Publications that included mastheads such as "Spicy Detective," "Spicy Adventure," "Spicy Western," and "Spicy Mystery." After the demise of the pulps, Bellem started writing for television and contributed scripts to shows such as "The Lone Ranger," "Adventures of Superman"
The most over-worked dick in Hollywood No, not Charlie Sheen! It's Dan Turner - private snoop and the most famous creation of the 1930's pulp magazine SPICY DETECTIVE. ("Dick" is old slang for a detective. It's fallen out of favor for obvious reasons.)Dan Turner emerged from the womb with a 32 caliber pistol strapped under his arm and a wise-crack on his lips. He's a handy man in a fight, which is good because he gets into plenty of them.Of course, all dames love a good-looking tough guy and Dan is a veritable babe-magnet - which puts the "spice" in SPICY D. Richard said you are an avid reader then this is a good look at a time when pulp novels were the. If you are an avid reader then this is a good look at a time when pulp novels were the staple of the publishing world.Authors churned out these stories for a penny a word IF they were lucky, and would knock out to or three a week,and it shows.Understand, these are NOT Ramon Chandler stories, or the type you would find in your monthly edition of Ellery Queen Magazine.However, they are fun and light and and worth your time to see how dime literature developed over the years.A lot of good Joes cut their teeth and learned . "Non Stop Action" according to Ralph E. Vaughan. This book reprints four of Robert Leslie Bellem's stories about Dan Turner, Hollywood detective, first published in the "spicy" pulps of the Forties. Although mostly forgotten today, at least until the economics of digital publishing allowed them to be unearthed and republished, they were quite popular at the time, as much for Dan's breezy and eccentric narrative as for his libidinous exploits with nearly every buxom beauty who crossed his path. Well, maybe the ladies held an edge with the frustrated and romantic mostl