The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes
- Editore:
Popular Publications
- Collana:
- The Dime Detective Library
- Illustratore:
- Rafael DeSoto, DeSoto
- EAN:
9781618276056
- ISBN:
1618276050
- Pagine:
- 236
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Complete Cases of Bookie Barnes
A truck driver employed by Murdock Motor Freight, Bookie Barnes is a tough working class hero. Though not a detective per se, he is a rough customer described as "tall, heavy-chested, with a build you see only in physical culture ads, and, though barely twenty-six, he'd been on the trucks for three years." He is emblematic of the type of crime fighters found in pulp fiction in that he represents the typical readership of pulp fiction: an average working-class audience. Written by one of the greats of the detective pulps, Robert Reeves-who was tragically killed in World War II-this book collects all of his Bookie Barnes stories: "Murder in High Gear," "Over a Barrel," and "Murder Without Death," as well as his lone, non-series character story, "Dance Macabre."