Outlaw

by Frank Gruber

Frank Bantam FIRST First Edition, 3rd Printing (February 1980). Not price-clipped. Published by Bantam Books, 1959. 12mo. Paperback. Book is very good with stamps on top/bottom page ends. Covers have some light shelf wear. Seller 356387 Pulp Paperbacks

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1940

About the author

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Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.

Reviews

[Randy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story of Jim Chapman, the first outlaw to rob a bank in broad daylight, the first to rob a train, and his ten year long battle with the Alan Vickers detective Agency that took him from Independence, Missouri to Chicago to New York City to Deadwood and back.

His marriage, the growing legend, the final betrayal.

A western from 1959 by the pulp writer Gruber.

[Bradthad Codgeroger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very solid western by a new-to-me writer. Very well-plotted, with realistic action and a nice sense of historical context.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun and informative western concerning the post-Civil War banditry. Frank Gruber knows his material.