Description
Articles and studies celebrating the Detective pulps, the 85th anniversary of The Maltese Falcon and its creator, Dashiell Hammett, along with recognizing the Western pulps and the 95th anniversary of Western Story Magazine.
A must have collectible for anyone who appreciates the pulp magazine era and its history!
Dashiell Hammett and the Detective Pulps
- “House Burglary Poor Trade,” (an interview with Dashiell Hammett) by Helen Herbert Foster
- “Sex, Deftly Handled,” by H. Bedford-Jones
- “Shall We Write Sex Stories,” (a reply to “Sex, Deftly Handled,”) by Dashiell Hammett and H. Bedford-Jones
- “How Philo Vance, Clubfoot and Charlie Chan Were Born,” by H.F. Manchester
- “Do You Want to Become a Writer? Or Do You Want to Make Money?,” by Joseph T. Shaw
- “Dialogue,” by Joseph T. Shaw
- “Cleve F. Adams: Black Knight, Cannibal and Forgotten Man,” by Evan Lewis
- “The Maltese Falcon on Film: A Photo Gallery
Special Fiction Section
- “The Road Home,” as by Peter Collinson (Dashiell Hammett)
The Western Pulps
- “Western Fiction Discussed by Eugene Manlove Rhodes,” by William McLeod Raine
- “To the Prolific Belong the Spoils,” by George C. Henderson
- “Get Your Villany First,” by W.D. Hoffman
- “Write ’em Cowboy!” (an interview with William McLeod Raine) by Herbert Cerwin
- “The Western Story Lives,” (1931) by J.R. Johnston
- “Clarence E. Mulford Lets His Stories ‘Grow’,” by Harold L. Cail
- “The Western Story Today,” (1934) by Edmund Collier
- “Mean Pete Growls!,” (an interview with Western author Peter Brandvold) by Tom Roberts
- “My Favorite Western Pulps and Authors,” by James Reasoner
Art Focus—Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the births of
- “Autobiography and art gallery,” by Virgil Finlay
- “Hannes Bok biography and art gallery,” by Robert Weinberg
- “My Glazing Technique,” (1945) by Hannes Bok
- “Edd Cartier biography and art gallery,” by Robert Weinberg
Film Focus
- “From Pulp to the Silver Screen, 2014,” by Ed Hulse
First book publication
Trade paperback / 152 pages
Cover design by Tom Roberts
