Long Live the Dead: Smashing Detective Stories (Black Mask, 8) - Softcover

Cave, Hugh B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480462357 ISBN 13: 9781480462359

Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2014

Synopsis

Ten stories of murder and suspense from one of the all-time masters of pulp fiction
An addled ex-boxer named Tiny Tim ambles out of the shadows and complains to a beat cop that he is being followed. The officer laughs him off; everyone knows that Tiny Tim has heard footsteps behind him for years. But a few minutes later, Tim is spotted in a pool of blood, dead at the bottom of the subway steps. After years of running, the imagined footsteps have caught up to him at last.
This brisk tale of deception and murder is but one of the stories in this collection from Hugh B. Cave, a master of pulp fiction whose career spanned seventy-five years. Along with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Cave was one of the defining authors of Black Mask magazine, and these stories are perfect examples of what set that pulp apart. Hard-boiled, fast-paced, and witty, the tales of Long Live the Dead are just as captivating now as they were on the newsstand many decades ago.

About this title

About the Author

Hugh B. Cave (1910–2004) was an intensely prolific author of fiction whose career spanned nearly the entire history of pulp magazines. Born in England and raised near Boston, he published his first story at eighteen and continued writing until his death, producing well over one thousand stories of horror, mystery, and suspense. 

Review

“Other writers may have been equally productive in as many genres, but very few matched the success and professional reputation of Mr. Cave.” —The New York Times

Edition details

• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1480462357
• ISBN 13: 9781480462359
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Deutsch Keith Alan