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Killer with a Key: A Hardboiled Crime Novel of Murder, Blackmail, and Pursuit

Killer with a Key: A Hardboiled Crime Novel of Murder, Blackmail, and Pursuit - Hardcover

by Dan Marlowe
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dan MarlowePublish date:4/3/2018Pages:168
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Black Curtain PressISBN-13:9781515425328ISBN-10:1515425320UPC:9781515425328Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Thrillers, Mystery & Detective, CrimeBook Topic:Hard-BoiledSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.418Product ID:SCAW0QJ33E

Killer with a Key is a hardboiled crime novel from Dan J. Marlowe, a writer whose lean, violent fiction helped define the darker edge of mid-century American suspense. A man with a criminal past, a woman in danger, and a key that may unlock more than one secret pull the story into a world of pursuit, mistrust, blackmail, and murder. Marlowe's strength is pressure: his characters move through a landscape where greed, fear, and desperation strip away respectable surfaces and leave only risk.

First published in the late 1950s, Killer with a Key belongs to the world of paperback noir, hardboiled mystery, and American crime fiction in which survival often depends on nerve, suspicion, and the willingness to act first. For readers of vintage crime novels, noir fiction, private-eye-era suspense, paperback originals, and mid-century mystery fiction, Marlowe offers the directness and menace that made his work a lasting part of the hardboiled tradition.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Black Curtain PressISBN-13:9781515425328ISBN-10:1515425320UPC:9781515425328Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Thrillers, Mystery & Detective, CrimeBook Topic:Hard-BoiledSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.418Product ID:SCAW0QJ33E
Marlowe, Dan: - Dan J. Marlowe was an American crime writer best known for his hardboiled novels, fast-moving plots, and unsentimental treatment of criminal lives under pressure. Born in 1914, Marlowe came to fiction after years in business and insurance, bringing to his novels a practical eye for procedure, motive, money, and risk. His work became associated with the paperback original era, where crime fiction was expected to move quickly, hit hard, and waste little time on ornament.Marlowe's best-known book, The Name of the Game Is Death, helped establish his reputation as one of the sharper voices in postwar American crime fiction. His novels often follow desperate men, professional criminals, fugitives, and ordinary people drawn into violence by greed, fear, or opportunity. Killer with a Key shows the qualities that make Marlowe a strong fit for Black Curtain Books: spare prose, hardboiled atmosphere, noir morality, and a clear understanding that crime fiction works best when the consequences feel immediate.
Publisher: Black Curtain Press

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