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June 15, 2012
PULP NOW: FOREIGN LEGION!
PULP NOW: FOREIGN LEGION!ANNOUNCING THE COMPLETE REPRINTING OF THEODORE ROSCOE'S "OLD THIBAUT CORDAY" FROM THE PAGES OF ARGOSY!
COMING THIS SUMMER FROM ALTUS PRESS!
THE GREATEST CREATION OF THEODORE ROSCOE IS COLLECTED FOR THE FIRST TIME!
One of the most popular writers to ever appear in the pages of ARGOSY, Roscoe penned the adventures of Old Thibault Corday of the French Foreign Legion, who appeared in more than twenty stories from 1929 to 1939. Split over four books, these will be released monthly, one after another starting this summer.
Each volume will retail for $19.95 softcover, $29.95 hardcover.
CONTENTS:
Better Than Bullets
The Dance of the Seven Veils
An Eye for an Eye
The Death Watch
The Bearded Slayer
The Mutineer
Toughest in the Legion
Monsieur Murder
The Spy with the Bald Head
The Ears of Donkey Daudette
The Devil Who Played God Jacques the Giantess Killer
The Kid and the Cutthroats
Red-Headed Dancing Girl
Monkey See, Monkey Do
The Man Who Lost His Head
The Wonderful Lips of Thibong Linh
The Heads of Sergeant Baptiste
Snake-Head
The Wonderful Lamp of Thibaut Corday
Corday and the Seven League Boots
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June 8, 2012
HONEY WEST #6!
HONEY WEST #6!ARRIVING IN COMIC SHOPS JUNE 13!
STORY: TRINA ROBBINS
ART: SILVESTRE SZILAGYI
Murder, Forsooth is the way Shakespeare might have put it when Honey goes undercover in a corset and pushup bra at a Medieval Faire, to find out who’s threatening to kill the May Queen.
And when those beauty queens go at it tooth and nail, battling for a prize that could lead to stardom, and when that contest might very well be fixed, woe betide the girl who wins, because her jealous rivals might make sure that it’s adios, hasta la vista, so long — at the Faire!
32 PAGES ~ COLOR ~ $3.99
HARDBOILED CORNER: MURDERS IN THE VIEUX CARRE!
HARDBOILED CORNER: MURDERS IN THE VIEUX CARRE!RICHARD HELMS
FOUR PAT GALLEGHER NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME (JOKER POKER, VOODOO THAT YOU DO, JUICY WATUSI, WET DEBT) . . .
$2.99 FOR YOUR KINDLE
I'm enjoying these New Orleans-based tales by three-time Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award nominee, and two-time Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer Award winner Richard Helms.
The main character in this series is Pat Gallegher, a failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist, disgraced college professor, and now a jazz cornetist in a dive bar located off Toulouse Street in New Orleans' French Quarter.
Gallegher is also a hulking presence who sidelines as a collector for loanshark named Leduc to pay off his own sizable gambling debt. To balance the shaky scales of his own brittle karma, he also performs 'favors' for friends, and friends of friends.
June 3, 2012
PULP NOW: TALES OF THE HANGING MONKEY!
PULP NOW: TALES OF THE HANGING MONKEY!TALES OF THE SOUTH SEAS . . . AVAILABLE JUNE 8TH . . .
In the middle of the South Seas is the island of Motugra, so named by the natives. It has the only deep water port in this island chain. On Motugra you’ll find The Hanging Monkey, an inn and bar owned and operated by Irish ex-patriot Corky O’Brien. Here gather some of the most colorful rogues, scalawags and pirates ever to ply the trade routes of the Pacific during the late 1930s.
Enter and meet Khuna, the bar’s bouncer and former headhunter. Miko, the slim and beautiful Chinese girl with the mysterious past. One eyed Captain Nick Fortune, owner of the schooner Fortune’s Folly and air freight pilot, Jimmy Dolan. And don’t forget ace reporter, the lovely blond Grace Thomas.
All of these characters spring from the mind of writer Bill Craig as homage to the classic pulp island stories of yesterday. Along for the ride, Craig is joined by Derrick Ferguson, Joshua Reynolds and Tommy Hancock.
Here are four fast paced, island adventures guaranteed to whisk your imagination to tropical paradises of warm breezes, swaying palm trees and crystal blue waters. Where danger can lurk behind the smile of an alluring native girl and a man’s fists are as important as his wits.
So, hitch up your gunbelt, cock your pilot’s cap and swing the door’s open . . . Welcome to The Hanging Monkey!
AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!
June 2, 2012
June 1, 2012
PULP NOW: BLOOD AND TACOS #2!
PULP NOW: BLOOD AND TACOS #2!I ENJOYED ISSUE #1, SO I AM HOPING FOR MORE OF THE SAME IN ISSUE #2 . . .
Welcome to the second issue of Blood and Tacos! There was a time when paperback racks were full of men’s adventure series. Next to the Louis L’Amours, one could find the adventures of The Executioner, the Destroyer, the Death Merchant, and many more action heroes that were hell-bent on bringing America back from the brink. That time was the 1970s and ’80s. A bygone era filled with wide-eyed innocence and mustaches.
Those stories are back! The new quarterly magazine Blood and Tacos is bringing back the action, the fun, and the adventure. Also, the mustaches.
In each issue of Blood and Tacos, some of today’s hottest crime writers will choose an era and create a new pulp hero and deliver a brand-new adventure. Each issue will include 5-6 stories featuring action-packed mayhem written in the style of that bygone era. The stories might not always be politically correct, but whether satire or homage, they will deliver on every page. Fast and fun, action and adventure, Blood and Tacos.
If the stories weren’t enough, Blood and Tacos will also feature fine pulpy art, reviews of some of the fine (and not so fine) novels from the same period, and maybe even a recipe or two.
So enjoy this serving of Blood and Tacos. And remember, if it’s too cheesy, it’s a quesadilla.
May 30, 2012
FIGHT CARD: KING OF THE OUTBACK REVIEWED BY ROUGH EDGES!
FIGHT CARD: KING OF THE OUTBACK REVIEWED BY ROUGH EDGES!JAMES REASONER GIVES FIGHT CARD: KING OF THE OUTBACK A GREAT REVIEW OVER AT HIS ROUGH EDGES BLOG . . .
The great Fight Card series goes international with King Of The Outback, which is set in Australia. Another difference is that for the first time the narrator isn't a boxer but rather the trainer for a traveling tent show of fighters. Yack, as he's known, is an American who stayed in Australia after recovering there from wounds he received fighting in the South Pacific during World War II. The star of the traveling troupe is an aborigine named Tommy King, the so-called King of the Ring.
Not surprisingly, there's a dangerous rivalry between the show Yack works for and another troupe of boxers that's backed by the local crime syndicate. That rivalry escalates into open warfare. Throw in a boxing kangaroo, a whole tribe of aborigines, arson, a crooked referee, and it all builds to a very satisfying climax that has a nice epic feel to it.
The author behind the Jack Tunney house-name this time around is David James Foster, and while I'm not familiar with his work, he does a fine job of mixing local color, good characters, humor, and plenty of pugilistic action. Fight Card is one of the most consistently entertaining e-book series out there, and King Of The Outback is a worthy entry indeed. Recommended.
