Seven Slayers - Softcover

Cain Pse, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162755095X ISBN 13: 9781627550956

Publisher: Black Curtain Press, 2013

Synopsis

Murder multiplied by SEVEN! Supercharged action and breath-taking suspense in this carnival of crime from the blood-dripped pen of Paul Cain, a connoisseur of crime who writes in the best homicidal tradition of Hammett and Chandler. This is one collection of spine-tingling murder yarns that you won't read with your back to the door.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

ly ingenius tales of murder passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled.

There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way from the station.  There's the glamorous Bella, whose boyfriends have the distressing habit of stabbing one another while she naps in the next room.  And of course there's Johnny Doolin, who hires himself out as a bodyguard--only to find that his client has no interest in staying alive.

The men and women in Seven Slayers are exactly what the title promises:  people who kill for love or money or for the sheer, perverse joy of homicide.  And this riveting collection is one of the few surviving books by Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric, aka George Sims), a hard-drinking, enigmatic writer of the 1930s who had as many pseudonyms as he had wives and of whom Raymond Chandler wrote that he had reached in his fict

Review:

"Prime examples of thirties' pulp crime-fiction writing at its finest . . . as intense a noir portrait of Depression-era America as those painted by James M. Cain." --Bill Pronzini

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Curtain Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 162755095X
• ISBN 13: 9781627550956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152