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The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume IV

Author : Mickey Spillane
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2018-03-06
ISBN : 0451492730
Pages : 672 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (492 Download)

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Download Free The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume IV PDF by Mickey Spillane Full Book and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For old fans and newcomers alike, an ebook-exclusive collection of four classic Mike Hammer novels from bestselling crime fiction icon Mickey Spillane A killer preying on desperate women, setting Mike Hammer on a journey through the highs and lows of New York City society to find the truth. A nefarious underground network bent on destroying America. An ex-mobster, brutally murdered in Mike's office. And the promise of $89 billion, but only if he can evade the Mafia long enough to get it. Mike Hammer is a no-holds-barred detective featured in more than two dozen novels and short stories, as well as a number of films, TV series, comics, and radio series. This collection includes The Body Lovers, Survival...Zero!, The Killing Man, and Black Alley; reissued in a convenient digital omnibus to celebrate Spillane's 100th birthday with an introduction from Max Allan Collins.

The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume I

Author : Mickey Spillane
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2001-06-01
ISBN : 1440674108
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (674 Download)

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Download Free The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume I PDF by Mickey Spillane Full Book and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triple-shot anthology featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels—from the undisputed master of detective fiction. In Mickey Spillane's classic detective novels, the action exploded in a bone-crunching catharsis. Men and women didn't make love, they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. They rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more. Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing history—an innovative, no-holds-barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend, and Spillane, one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost their power to sucker punch the reader. Find out for yourself in this omnibus featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery... Includes: I, the Jury My Gun is Quick Vengeance is Mine!

The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume II

Author : Mickey Spillane
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2001-09-01
ISBN : 1440674116
Pages : 528 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (674 Download)

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Download Free The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume II PDF by Mickey Spillane Full Book and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate.”—The New York Times With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history. This powerhouse collection includes three of the master's long-out-of-print greatest novels—together for the first time in one explosive volume: The Big Kill One Lonely Night Kiss Me, Deadly Includes a special introduction by Shamus and Edgar Award-winner Lawrence Block

The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume III

Author : Mickey Spillane
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2010-10-05
ISBN : 1101464461
Pages : 544 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (464 Download)

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Download Free The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume III PDF by Mickey Spillane Full Book and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trio of classic novels in the third omnibus from “the king of hard boiled crime fiction” (USA Today). “There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate” (New York Times), and it's in full force in this collection of three of his greatest Mike Hammer novels: The Girl Hunters: Hammer's voluptuous, long-lost love is targeted by the mastermind assassin known as the Dragon. The Snake: Protecting a runaway blonde, Hammer trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and sex-hungry females. The Twisted Thing: A kidnapping case links Hammer to a fourteen year-old mystery and the most venomous killer the private eye has ever faced.

LIFE

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Release Date : 1952-06-23
ISBN :
Pages : 136 pages
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The Dying City

Author : Brian L. Tochterman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-05-08
ISBN : 1469633078
Pages : 296 pages
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Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

Author : Maysaa Husam Jaber
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-02-02
ISBN : 1137356472
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (356 Download)

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The People We Meet in Stories

Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2020-10-20
ISBN : 153813036X
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (13 Download)

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Download Free The People We Meet in Stories PDF by Robert McParland Full Book and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novels bring us into fictional worlds where we encounter the lives, struggles, and dreams of characters who speak to the underlying pulse of society and social change. In this book, post–World War II America comes alive again as literary critic Robert McParland tilts the rearview mirror to see the characters that captured the imaginations of millions of readers in the most popular and influential novels of the 1950s. This literary era introduced us to Holden Caulfield, Augie March, Lolita, and other antiheroes. Together with popular culture heroes such as Perry Mason and James Bond, they entertained thousands of readers while revealing the underlying currents of ambition, desire, and concern that were central to the American Dream. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni’sRoom explored racial issues and matters of identity that reverberate still today. The works of Jack Kerouac, the Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, and the clever and creative William S. Burroughs and his Naked Lunch challenged conventional perspectives. The People We Meet in Stories will appeal to readers discovering these works for the first time and to those whose tattered paperbacks reveal a long relationship with these key works in American literary history.

Existentialism, Film Noir, and Hard-Boiled Fiction

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Publisher : Cambria Press
Release Date :
ISBN : 1621969282
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (969 Download)

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A Companion to Crime Fiction

Author : Charles J. Rzepka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-06-08
ISBN : 1119675774
Pages : 552 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (675 Download)

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Download Free A Companion to Crime Fiction PDF by Charles J. Rzepka Full Book and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture

Author : Roland Vegso
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2013
ISBN : 082324556X
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (245 Download)

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Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century

Author : Robert W. McChesney
Publisher : NYU Press
Release Date : 2014-10-22
ISBN : 1583674799
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (674 Download)

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Download Free Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century PDF by Robert W. McChesney Full Book and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new book, award-winning author Robert W. McChesney argues that the weight of the present is blinding people to the changing nature and the tremendous possibilities of the historical moment we inhabit. In Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century, he uses a sophisticated political economic analysis to delineate the recent trajectory of capitalism and its ongoing degeneration. In exciting new research McChesney reveals how notions of democratic media are becoming central to activists around the world seeking to establish post-capitalist democracies. Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century also takes a fresh look at recent progressive political campaigns in the United States. While conveying complex ideas in a lively and accessible manner, McChesney demonstrates a very different and far superior world is not only necessary, but possible.

100 Greatest Literary Detectives

Author : Eric Sandberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-04-12
ISBN : 1442278234
Pages : 250 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (278 Download)

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Download Free 100 Greatest Literary Detectives PDF by Eric Sandberg Full Book and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator. He—or, increasingly, she—can be a private eye, a police officer, or a general busybody. But whatever forms these investigators take, they are the key element of crime fiction. Criminals and their crimes come and go, while our attention is captured by these fascinating characters who exist at the intersection of so many different literary and social roles. 100 Greatest Literary Detectives offers a selection of the most influential, important, and intriguing fictional sleuths—amateur or professional—from around the world. From Sherlock Holmes to Harry Hole, Kinsey Millhone to Kiyoshi Mitarai, the detectives profiled here give readers a broader picture of one of fiction’s most popular genres. Each entry summarizes the distinctive features of notable investigators and their approaches to crime, provides a brief outline of major features of their fictional careers, and makes a case for their importance based on literary-historical impact, novelty, uniqueness, aesthetic quality, or cultural resonance. The characters profiled here include Lew Archer, Martin Beck, Father Brown, Brother Cadfael, Adam Dalgliesh, Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, Kay Scarpetta, Sam Spade, Phillip Trent, V. I. Warshawski, Lord Peter Wimsey, Nero Wolfe, and many others. Readers will find some of their favorite detectives here, learn more about their literary and cultural significance, and discover other great sleuths—old and new, local and international—in this engaging volume. 100 Greatest Literary Detectives provides a fascinating look into some of the most intriguing fictional characters of all time.

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction

Author : David Riddle Watson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-25
ISBN : 303087074X
Pages : 218 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (87 Download)

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Download Free Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction PDF by David Riddle Watson Full Book and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing in truth was unthinkable to the present, where it is common to believe that objective truth is a remnant of a simpler, more naïve time. Examining detective stories both literary and popular including hard-boiled, postmodern, and twenty-first century novels, the book establishes that examining detective fiction allows for a unique view of this progression to post-truth since the detective’s ultimate job is to take the reader from doubt to belief. David Riddle Watson shows that objectivity is intersubjectivity, arguing that the belief in multiple worlds is ultimately what sustains the illusion of relativism.

It Didnêt Mean Anything

Author : Alexander N. Howe
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2008-03-03
ISBN : 0786434546
Pages : 296 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (434 Download)

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Download Free It Didnêt Mean Anything PDF by Alexander N. Howe Full Book and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion or psychosis. The first chapter identifies several instances of hysteria within the fiction of two of the genre's pioneers, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Chapter Two traces the development of the hard-boiled detective's code of honor through the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, identifying the often-paradoxical nature of this code and its origins in obsessive neurosis. Chapter Three analyzes the anti-detective fiction of Philip K. Dick in terms of paranoid psychosis, and the final chapter returns to the question of hysteria, taking up the female hard-boiled detectives of author Marcia Muller.

Noir Affect

Author : Christopher Breu
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-02
ISBN : 0823287785
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (287 Download)

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Download Free Noir Affect PDF by Christopher Breu Full Book and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the United States to Mexico, France, and Japan and in a range of different media, including films, novels, video games, and manga. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: These are narratives centered on loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation, resentment, resistance, and refusal. Moreover, noir often asks us to identify with those on the losing end of cultural narratives, especially the criminal, the lost, the compromised, the haunted, the unlucky, the cast-aside, and the erotically “perverse,” including those whose greatest erotic attachment is to death. Drawing on contemporary work in affect theory, while also re-orienting some of its core assumptions to address the resolutely negative affects narrated by noir, Noir Affect is invested in thinking through the material, bodily, social, and political–economic impact of the various forms noir affect takes. If much affect theory asks us to consider affect as a space of possibility and becoming, Noir Affect asks us to consider affect as also a site of repetition, dissolution, redundancy, unmaking, and decay. It also asks us to consider the way in which the affective dimensions of noir enable the staging of various forms of social antagonism, including those associated with racial, gendered, sexual, and economic inequality. Featuring an Afterword by the celebrated noir scholar Paula Rabinowitz and essays by an array of leading scholars, Noir Affect aims to fundamentally re-orient our understanding of noir. Contributors: Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Brian Rejack, Pamela Thoma, Kirin Wachter-Grene

The British National Bibliography

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
Release Date : 2003
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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