Bøger af Day Keene

ACAPULCO G.P.O.Acapulco is a paradise to some, but for most of the expatriates living here, the good life is a mixed blessing. Too much money and too much temptation is a bad breeding ground. Jim Harris knows that all too well. As a painter, his glory days are behind him, and all he can do is teach. His wife Sonia has become the breadwinner, modeling in the nude for the other painters. So Jim and Sonia argue-and drink.But now Sally, a teenage girl Harris teaches, has gone missing, and he is the last person to see her. Harris knows he was drunk last night, but he's sure he didn't rape and murder his young student. He wasn't that drunk. So why do they find one of his pallet knives, sharpened to a deadly point, near a pile of Sally's clothes?

This is the second collection in the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps Series, edited by John Pelan and Fender Tucker and introduced by Ed Gorman. Its six novellas were published in the 40s and include: We Are The Dead Corpses Come In Pairs Kitten On The Corpse A Slight Mistake In Corpses Thirteen Must Die If The Coffin Fits

Day Keene wrote these eight hardboiled tales for the pulps, particularly Detective Stories, in the 40s. John Pelan has selected these for Volume #1 of the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series. The titles are: League of the Grateful Dead As Deep As the Grave Fry Away, Kentucky Babe Crawl Out of That Coffin Marry the Sixth for Murder Nothing to Worry About Dance with The Death House Doll Dead As in Mackerel The introduction by John Pelan tells more about Ramble House's plan to reprint ALL of Day Keene's pulp stories.

DEAD DOLLS DON’T TALK They didn’t have a body, but all the evidence proves to the jury that Harry L. Cotton murdered Bonnie Deering on her husband’s yacht. Doc Hart is so sure, he even persuades the one holdout on the jury to change her vote. After the trial is over, Hart picks up a young lady outside the courthouse and allows himself to be seduced by her, only to find himself in bed with Cotton’s wife. That’s when he realizes a mistake has been made. Because though Peggy Cotton has no intention of helping her cheating husband escape the death penalty, she has seen Bonnie alive and well. Hart leaves the room but when he returns he finds Peggy murdered. That’s when Hart learns just what it feels like to be an innocent man accused of a crime he didn’t commit—with almost no time at all to find the living Bonnie to prove otherwise! HUNT THE KILLER Framed by someone named Senor Peso, Charlie White has been sitting in Raiford Prison for the past four years, waiting to see who would be there for him when he got out—his faithful wife Beth, or his Cuban mistress Zo. If Beth is there, he promises himself to go straight. If Zo, well, he’d deal with that when it happened. And, of course, it is Zo who shows up, with a fast car, a bottle of rum and a rented cabin. Later that evening, he finds the letter from Beth, asking him to come to her. But before he can leave, someone crashes their little love nest, smashing him over the head—and shooting Zo! Before Charlie can get used to freedom, he is on the lam, framed for the murder of Zo, with no where else to go but back to the arms of Beth. But who would want to kill Zo? And where—and who--is Senor Peso? TOO HOT TO HOLD If only Lew Dix hadn’t picked Linda Lou to carry the payoff money, none of this would be happening and the cab driver would still be alive. It starts when Linda Lou takes the plane from Chicago to New York as planned. It’s raining when she gets there and she’s already plenty nervous with this pretty package in her hands. She manages to get a taxi but she stuffs the package between the seat cushions just to be extra careful. How is she to know that the big man who opens the cab door with his hand in his pocket isn’t carrying a gun, ready to blast her and grab the money? But all Jim Brady wants is a cab. When he opens the door, Linda bolts, leaving the package behind--and setting off a series of events that begins with murder and ends with worse.