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The Leather Duke

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Circumstances beyond their control (and for once, beyond their ability to twist, sidestep, or disregard) force Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg to take jobs. They become the employees of "the Leather Duke", Chicago's biggest operator in the leather business. But before they've been there half a day, Sam finds a corpse. Then the uproar begins. Whether they're fighting in poolrooms, mixing it up at dances, or merely adding to their well-developed art of deadbeating, these two lads are at it every minute.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1949

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Frank Gruber

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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.

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July 5, 2019
Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg are absolutely amazing daredevils in a really funny sort of way. I know no rivals for these whodunit Frank Gruber novels. Scrumptious!
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December 21, 2024
Um policialzinho da Colecção Vampiro achado no lixo.

Dois desempregados mortos de fome decidem-se a trabalhar numa fábrica de curtumes durante um bocado. Calha ser logo nessa altura que uma pessoa é assassinada e um deles, o que tem mais genica, decide-se a resolver o caso.

Este livro tem sobretudo interesse porque caracteriza bastante bem a forma como as pessoas vivem e se comportam na franja social operária, a mais baixa, no final dos anos 40 (início dos 50). É curioso ver o que comem, o que bebem, onde vão sair, como se deslocam, e a forma como as elites estão tão bem separadas dos pobrezinhos, e como as aparências são ilusórias conforme a situação em que cada um se encontra.

De resto, o mistério em si não tem nada de extraordinário, e não é um daqueles policiais que nos deixa de boca aberta.
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