The term pulp fiction was once used to describe trashy story magazines produced on cheap, rough paper. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are perhaps best remembered for their fast-paced, lurid, sensational and exploitative stories. Pulp magazines often contained a wide variety of genres, including detective/mystery, science fiction, adventure, romance, war, horror/occult, and others. Find all your favorite pulp fiction titles here at AbeBooks.com.
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William Burroughs
Burroughs' first novel was published under the author's sobriquet, William Lee, and chronicled Burroughs' descent into the underworld drug culture of New York, New Orleans and Mexico City.
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Ann Bannon
The author's first book, something of a classic of lesbian fiction. Bannon wrote a handful of novels on lesbian themes, and then retired from the writing scene to become a successful college administrator.
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Dashiell Hammett
A rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
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Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep centers around the Sternwoods: an old, paralyzed ex-soldier, who made a fortune in oil; his two beautiful daughters, one a gambler, the other a degenerate, and a strangely missing son-in-law.
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Day Keene
Introducing Johnny Aloha - the private eye from Hawaii - Aloha means hello, good-bye and much love in Island parlance - his presence means murder anywhere.
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Leslie Charteris
Here is Simon Templar, alias the Saint, carrying his nonchalant man-hunting through the London underworld - a two-fisted man of action who can look at murder or a beautiful woman.
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Gerald Kersh
In London under the fog of war, a 10-year-old Jewish girl is murdered. The police have no clues and little interest. Crusader Asta Thundesley takes up the challenge.
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Charles Willeford
In this classic of Hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue and lust set in San Francisco in the early fifties.
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Quentin Tarantino
Taking his inspiration from the popular, and often lurid, "pulp" crime stories of the thirties and forties, Tarantino intertwines three narratives and introduces a variety of fascinating characters; thick-witted hit men, a double-crossing prizefighter and more.
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Robert Kenneth Jones
Recommended by Bookworm & Silverfish, Virginia, U.S.A
Two boys were walking in the campus of the Bridgeville Academy. They were apparently of about the same age--but there was a considerable difference in their attire.
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Maxwell Grant
Recommended by Nerman's Books and Collectibles, North Dakota, U.S.A
A very good plus pulp magazine. Light crease on cover, closed tear along spine edge. Spine is complete. Clean and bright cover. Nice copy. Printed in Canada.
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Robert Kenneth Jones
Recommended by The Book Hive, Minnesota, U.S.A
A scholarly look at those lurid pulps of the 1930s and 1940s. Included in this review are Dime Mystery, Horror Stories, Terror Tales & Uncanny Tales.
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