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The Surfside Caper
Ace Double Novel. Printed with "In a Vanishing Room" by Robert Colby.
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First published January 1, 1961
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Louis Trimble
104 books4 followersLouis Preston Trimble (2 March 1917 - 1988) was an American writer and academic. His published work included science fiction, westerns, and mysteries, as well as academic non-fiction. He generally wrote as Louis Trimble, but used the pseudonym "Stuart Brock" for some of his work.
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October 7, 2018
Louis Trimble wrote crime fiction, westerns, and other novels. Surfside Caper is a terrific little pulp novel that is charged with action right from the start. Murder, car races, intrigue, sexy widows, big time hustlers, small town cops, ex-lovers, drunks, frame-ups, traveling corpses, blackmail, and some kinkiness round it out.
You wouldn't think much of it if you were told it was about a hotel investigator and a battle over the ownership of a cliffside resort hotel. But that's where Trimble's magic comes in. He takes a rather mundane situation and fills it with so much intrigue and action that it really becomes a great pulp read.
You wouldn't think much of it if you were told it was about a hotel investigator and a battle over the ownership of a cliffside resort hotel. But that's where Trimble's magic comes in. He takes a rather mundane situation and fills it with so much intrigue and action that it really becomes a great pulp read.
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