Pin-Ups & Pulp Novels: Part 4: More Pulp
Dive into Part 4 of our curated pulp fiction list, featuring gritty crime capers from Max Allan Collins & Richard Stark, plus classic noir adventure from Ross Macdonald and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Explore hard-boiled detectives and vintage tales in this essential collection of pulp novels and mysteries.
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Lemons Never Lie
by Richard Stark
Professional thief Alan Grofield turns down a heist, then has to defend himself and his wife against the attacks of the fellow thief he spurned.
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The Last Quarry
by Max Allan Collins
On the 30th anniversary of his first appearance, enigmatic assassin Quarry stars in this gritty novel inspired by Collins's award-winning short film "A Matter of Principal," written for his acclaimed anthology movie "Shades of Noir." Lured out of retirement, Quarry is hired to kill a young librarian. He doesn't count on falling in love. Original.
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Kiss Her Goodbye
by Allan Guthrie
Joe Hope is a loan shark's enforcer. When his wife and young daughter die, he'll stop at nothing to bring down the man responsible.
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The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
by Maxim Jakubowski
Offers a collection of detective stories by Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and other writers
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The Galton Case
by Ross Macdonald
Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald's very best, about the search for the long lost heir of the wealthy Galton family. Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.
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Pure Pulp
by Edward Gorman
Celebrates American pulp fiction in this volume which anthologizes 1920s and 1930s innovators such as John Jakes and Robert Bloch alongside later masters of the form, including Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, and Donald Westlake
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Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
An English boy raised by a community of apes in the jungles of Africa encounters other human beings for the first time
