Pulp Fiction discussion

Here's a folder for members to post e-editions. They're not that easy to come across as no one is advertising them.

The Tall Dolores (Ed Noon mystery) by Mike Avallone 99c (amazon us)vintage

And the Street Screamed Blue Murder by Jason Michel 0.00

Kill the Boss Goodbye by Peter Rabe vintage 2.49

The Soft Arms of Death by Richard Hayward 2.89

Whip Hand by W. Franklin Sanders 2.49

Country Girl (says Classic Pulp Sleaze) by Richard McMullen .99

The Uncomplaining Corpses by Brett Halliday 2.99

I came across these this weekend.

Thanks Guy, but can you add the books properly to make it easier for people.

The Tall Dolores by Michael Avallone
Kill the Boss Good-Bye by Peter Rabe
The Soft Arms of Death by Richard Hayward
Whip Hand by W. Franklin Sanders
Country Girl by Richard McMullen
The Uncomplaining Corpses by Brett Halliday

Ah, you mean with links?

just added the links to the book page and author page on goodreads will make it easier for people to check out the book

Ok, thanks

Amazon has CyberMonday deals on Ebooks. I found some Dortmunder Westlake, Ken Bruen, Lawrence Block, James Ellroy, etc. Warnings: 1) some books might be out of copyright and can be found free elsewhere 2) Some are not novels; they are short stories, novelettes, etc. Check the page count.

Happy maxing out those credit cards!!

As well as those CyberMonday deals I searched Kindle Books for ones by Hard Case Crime and found a couple for under $5. Not bad considering most Kindle books seem to sell for around $10 nowadays.

AndrewP wrote: "As well as those CyberMonday deals I searched Kindle Books for ones by Hard Case Crime and found a couple for under $5. Not bad considering most Kindle books seem to sell for around $10 nowadays."

Well, many of us indies are selling our Kindle Books for less than $5. But most of us are unknowns! ;-)

Richard Prather's Shell Scott ebooks on Amazon are pretty cheap.

Prologue Books http://www.prologuebooks.com/
They specialize in new ebook editions of classic paperback crime and sf. They also have really excellent prices, a deep catalogue and a lot of freebies.

Mysterious Press http://mysteriouspress.com/
The ebook arm of Otto Penzler's Mysterious Press has a mystery and crime catalogue that can't be beat. Decent prices.

Prologue books on sale on Amazon. Many (not all of their titles) listed at 99c.

Too many to list, but authors include:

Whit Masterson
Frank Kane
Henry Kane
Vin Packer
Dan Marlowe
Marijane Meaker
Vin Packer
Harry Whittington
Gil Brewer
William Campbell Gault
Milton Ozaki
Orrie Hitt
Day Keene
Kin Platt
Wade Miller
Louis Trimble
G.H.Otis
Jack Webb
Talmage Powell
Charles Runyon
Ed Lacy
Andrew Coburn
Fletcher Flora
Peter Rabe
Bruno Fischer

Guy wrote: "Prologue books on sale on Amazon. Many (not all of their titles) listed at 99c.

Too many to list, but authors include:

Whit Masterson
Frank Kane
Henry Kane
Vin Packer
Dan Marlowe
Marijane Meaker
..."


These are real bargains and I urge all members of the Pulp Fiction group to support Prologue Books.

I've been purchasing a number of these to read on my iPad despite owning the original paperback editions as I wish to preserve the mostly "VG" (and the rare "mint") copies of my hardboiled paperback collection.

Most recently I purchased, downloaded & read Harry Whittington's excellent "One Deadly Dawn" rather than risk cracking the spine or doing further damage to my Ace Double edition.
I've also downloaded a couple of old Ed Lacy Prologue editions of paperbacks I fear can not stand up to another two-fisted read.

You can't go wrong with these ...unless of course you opt for the awesome Stark House Press two-fer trade paperbacks.

Guy wrote: "Prologue books on sale on Amazon. Many (not all of their titles) listed at 99c.

Too many to list, but authors include:

Whit Masterson
Frank Kane
Henry Kane
Vin Packer
Dan Marlowe
Marijane Meaker
..."

Picked up some by Robert Colby, Gil Brewer and others.

Alberto wrote: "I picked the excellent Badge of Evil which was the basis for the Orson Welles's Touch Of Evil. Now I ordered and am waiting to arrive some Vin Packers, Ed Lacys, Frank Kane, William Campbell Gault..."

Who is the publisher of the Ed Lacy reissues?

Alberto wrote: "Mantan wrote: "Who is the publisher of the Ed Lacy reissues? "

I was talking about Prologue Books. They've got 3 titles by Lacy.
■A Deadly Affair
■The Freeloaders
■Two Hot to Handle
Check:
http..."

Thanks, Alberto.
I have those in my "to download" list ...I don't even have the original paperbacks of The Freeloaders and Too Hot To Handle.

I recently downloaded Willeford's Whip Hand from Munsey's (I think it was).

According to the Yahoo Group RARA-AVIS Digest Number 3569, throught the month of June, Amazon is having another 99 cent sale on Prologue Books titles in Kindle format here:
http://amzn.to/17m8eIq

I spent 10 bucks yesterday on items by Day Keene, Ed Lacy, and Harry Whittington.
Going back for another bite of the apple later today.
Lots of Wade Miller, Peter Rabe, and Robert Colby titles on there for sale as well!

Also grabbed a copy of Cars and Girls by latest Goodreads member and author Evangeline Jennings in Kindle format here:

http://www.amazon.com/Cars-and-Girls-...

$3.99 for the Kindle version; $9.80 in paperback.
It's ghostly cool!

There are also some titles written by Donald Westlake using some of his many pen-names:



Not prologue titles, so not on sale...
Man Hungry by Alan Marshall

Young and Innocent by Edwin West

Kept by Sheldon Lord

Guy wrote: "There are also some titles written by Donald Westlake using some of his many pen-names:



Not prologue titles, so not on sale...
Man Hungry by Alan Marshall

Young and Innocent by Edwin West

Kept..."

Thanks for this info!
I'm embarrassed to admit that I was unaware of these particular pen-names of the master.

he had many names before he became famous.

http://www.openroadmedia.com/mapofmys...

Open Road media has a summer sale until June 18 on some titles, and there are some good ones here.

(divided into four geographical sections of the US)

1,661 pulp novels as free e-books

Saw this on Boing Boing today - http://boingboing.net/2013/10/08/1661...

Have not had time to check it out yet.

Sorry if it's already been posted elsewhere.

From Today, October 9th to October 10, ebook samples of our hard boiled crime fiction novels are available on Amazon for FREE!

"Original Sin City 20,000 Word Sampler" contains the first 9 chapters of our Barry Award Nominated novel "Little Mexico" and the first 3 chapters of its sequel "In the Name of the Father."

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FLA8KN8

I've never heard of Munsey's before. This is pretty awesome. Has anyone else used them? Thanks, Melki!

Jim wrote: "I've never heard of Munsey's before. This is pretty awesome. Has anyone else used them? Thanks, Melki!"

They have a great selection of rarities but beware of typos o'plenty!

Poor OCR?

Jim wrote: "Poor OCR?"

is there "good" OCR?
I've yet to experience it in any of the ebook reprints of classic paperback hardboiled crime novels I've purchased.
Especially in the really, really rare titles I've downloaded from the good folks at Munsey's.

Please keep in mind that these titles are impossible to find at reasonable prices elsewhere so I can abide the poor OCR.

OCR has come a long way, not that I'm any expert. The newer software we get for free with all-in-one HP laser printers seems to do a much better job with less hassle than even 5 years ago & is miles ahead of where it was a decade ago.

I'm with you on being able to live with the errors for the privilege of being able to read the book.

Two of my books are available for free this weekend via Amazon Kindle. They are two books of a five part alternative history, e-pulp series.

***** WILD MARJORAM: THE VOTE

Wild Marjoram follows a timeline where WWI never ended, in fact, it expanded. Here Germany occupies the East Coast of the USA, and if that wasn't bad enough, mob factions fight over the remaining free-zones!

Our heroine is a blonde haired blue-eyed mechanic with a locket that holds the key to her past. This perfect Aryan specimen lives in hiding from the Nazi occupation. If they discovered her, she’d be condemned to the fate of a broodmare. But she's not the type of girl to give up without a fight.

The Resistance has devised a plan to free the Nazi stranglehold of New York. It includes Wild Marjoram and Jerry of Chicagoland. So the two traveling companions set out on a long and winding road through the free-zones of North America to coordinate with other freedom fighters. It's the same route once traveled by her mother before her death. While on the mission Marj seeks clues from a shrouded past in hopes to connect with a mother she never knew. However, the best laid plans of mice and women…

Wild Marjoram: The Vote is the first stop of a five part road trip to the Broken Apple.

Free Oct 11th-Oct 13th at this link: http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Marjoram-U...


***** WILD MARJORAM: THE DETOUR

A few days ago, Marj and Jerry rolled into a cloistered farming community with the best of intensions. Their mission was to coordinate with friendly members of the underground resistance. Unfortunately the alleged allies were not what they appeared to be. As lies and betrayals add up it became clear the reportedly safe-heaven was actually as a nest of vipers. The throughly deceived traveling companions were separated, imprisoned, and on a short walk to the gallows.

Thanks to quick-thinking and a deception of her own, Marj escapes, frees Jerry and the couple hightail it out of corn country with one fortunate prize.

Spurred by mysterious clues uncovered in a secret diary, the road trip takes our heroes head to meet up with some old friend in New New Paris, in New Canada. Unfortunately the scars of their captivity remain and put a strain on the traveling companions relationship…as Marj finds communication with the past and a strange supernatural presence lurking...

Wild Marjoram: The Detour is the second stop of a five part road trip to the Broken Apple.

Free Oct 11-15th at this link: http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Marjoram-D...


***** THE PILL

A short Wild Marjoram story available for free via the E-pulp sampler. In Chicagoland, Marj finds out her safe live as a mechanic isn't all it seems and neither are the Slates who are grey-eyed machine-like women who used to be human. These women are now gang leaders, trying to make women equal in their eyes, the hard way and the only way the mean streets of the city will let them…

Free Sampler: http://www.amazon.com/ePulp-Sampler-V...

Upcoming works include the short story, The Birth, soon to be in a Dieselpunk Sampler and Part Three of the WM road trip, called The Spitfire, where Marj fixes planes and starts her fight in the Broken Apple.

Thank you for any support. If you can, please like us on Facebook. Thanks!

N.R. wrote: "Two of my books are available for free this weekend via Amazon Kindle. They are two books of a five part alternative history, e-pulp series.

***** WILD MARJORAM: THE VOTE

Wild Marjoram follows..."

I paid for my download of WILD MARJORAM: THE VOTE (Stop 1) a few months ago.
I've only read the 1st part but what I've read, I really enjoyed.
Totally intriguing premise and nice writing.
Without having even finished WILD MARJORAM: THE VOTE I'd recommend it to fans of SF, Dieselpunk, and Golden Age Science Fiction/Adventure pulps.

Sorry: unfortunately I do not do no Facebook.

I'd welcome any readers of hardboiled to review Dark Quarry, which is permafree on Amazon & Smashwords. Dark Blonde, the 3rd in the series will be free from Jan.4 to Jan 10 on a Bookbub promo. Thanks, David (The writer makes no claim for greatness of his writing, only for his editor calico cat, Sophie, who is great beyond belief).

I'll definitely check it out, David! Thanks!

My hardboiled pulp ebook Bloody Copper, Roaring Lead will be on sale on the Kindle today and through tomorrow for 99c (regularly $3.99). Behold, a synopsis:

Prohibition, 1926. Chicago is known as the "wettest city in America." Cops are on the take, bootleggers operate out in the open, and violence is commonplace. It's a town where a private eye like Horace Freem can make a living from the scofflaws and the law-abiding alike as long as he knows the angles to play. And Freem knows there's always an angle to play. His latest case is no exception: Thomas Hendricks, the son of a wealthy but faltering Chicago family has gone missing. Gone with him are the location of a copper fortune that any miner would kill for and a suitcase stuffed with forty-five thousand dollars to mine it. The money for solving the case is too much to pass up, and the trail of Thomas Hendricks will take Freem from the stained streets and ivory towers of Chicago to the hardscrabble mining towns and ranches of Ely, Nevada. It’s not long before Thomas's disappearance looks more like a murder, but Nevada's Copper City is a different game from the windy one Freem knows. In the high desert, a patronizing smile and a quick remark don’t get you as much as a loaded gun in a quick hand. And with cowboys and locals lining up to show Freem the way back home on a train or in a box, he'll have to be a fast study in how things work in the West if he wants to solve the mystery of what happened to Thomas Hendricks.

If you enjoy the P.I. genre as much as I do, I think you'll dig this little entry into it. In closing, I have no smooth way to end this post. The writing in the book is way better, though, I promise.

Didn't see this thread. Here are my reviews of Slay Ride and Bulletproof by Frank Kane. They're available on Prologue books for .99.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The first two Marvin Davis novels are available from the usual platforms for $.99





Thanks for all the suggestions above.

Guy wrote: "Prologue books on sale on Amazon. Many (not all of their titles) listed at 99c.

Too many to list, but authors include:

Whit Masterson
Frank Kane
Henry Kane
Vin Packer
Dan Marlowe
Marijane Meaker
..."

A few years back I bought a box of what they call sexy, sleaze books on Ebay at a tag sale. I finally sold most of the box on Ebay. The author most represented was Orrie Hitt. I ended up selling the seven of his PB's to his daughter. I researched him after the sale and immediately regretted selling them. He wrote an awful lot of pulp novels, writing at a feverish pace for most of his career. His daughter said, though there are a lot of rumors about his being like his characters, it wasn't true. He was quite happy in his writing and supported a family on it. He had a pretty normal life and wrote what he wanted to.

I'm going to have to check out those Prologue Ebooks!

Someone in the group may have already mentioned this website, but if you're looking for free, mostly out of print eBooks, check out 'Munseys'.

Here: http://www.munseys.com/site/home

A good selection of old Pulp Fiction novels.

Paul wrote: "Someone in the group may have already mentioned this website, but if you're looking for free, mostly out of print eBooks, check out 'Munseys'.

Here: http://www.munseys.com/site/home

A good select..."


Agreed.
Many of the harder-to-find Charles Willeford, Harry Whittington (& associated writers) pulp/sexploitation novels are available to download on the Munseys site.

My 1st read of Jonathan Latimer's Solomon's Vineyard was obtained from that site.

Prepare yourself for many, many serious typos, though.

Still wrote: "Paul wrote: "Someone in the group may have already mentioned this website, but if you're looking for free, mostly out of print eBooks, check out 'Munseys'.

Here: http://www.munseys.com/site/home

..."

Still wrote: "Paul wrote: "Someone in the group may have already mentioned this website, but if you're looking for free, mostly out of print eBooks, check out 'Munseys'.

Here: http://www.munseys.com/site/home

..."

Yes, typos aplenty. Also no covers or metadata. And lots of short stories from old pulp magazines. But hey, they're free, & i quite like finding the covers, etc.
Haven't looked at the other categories yet.

Since every country has different copyright laws, it's a good idea to know what the laws are in your own country when you visit foreign sites with free books in the public domain. Since I live in the U. S., if I went on a Russian site! I'd look at the laws in both Russia and the U. S. Concerning public domain works. I know the U. S. Is more strict than most.

David wrote: "Since every country has different copyright laws, it's a good idea to know what the laws are in your own country when you visit foreign sites with free books in the public domain. Since I live in t..."

Fair enough David. It's advisory. I'm just putting the information here. It's up to the individual & i believe in supporting authors by buying their books. But still...
Also, i don't live in the States.

Paul wrote: "Here's another site where you can download FREE eBooks. There's a limit of 10 per 24 hours, but an amazing selection. It's not a 'torrent' site & at a guess i would say it's most likely a Russian o..."

Apparently you have to have an invite to register for this site. If you don't mind, I'll PM you with my email address & ask you to invite me in.

The new Green Lama pulp novel is super cheap on Amazon! It's a direct continuation of the original pulps and plus it's fully licensed by the Crossen Estate which makes it canon.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00JTD8...

Brute in Brass by Harry Whittington Amazon US =2.99
Brute in Brass

Fires that Destroy by Harry Whittington Amazon US=2.99
Fires That Destroy

A night for Screaming by Harry Whittington Amazon US=2.99
A Night for Screaming

You'll Die Next by Harry Whittington Amazon US=2.99
You'll Die Next!
These Whittington books have JUST gone on special sale. Grab 'em while it lasts.

Jim wrote: "Paul wrote: "Here's another site where you can download FREE eBooks. There's a limit of 10 per 24 hours, but an amazing selection. It's not a 'torrent' site & at a guess i would say it's most likel..."

Glad to Jim. Also as an addendum to my previous post, i think it unlikely this site is in the Soviet Bloc. But Europe, definitely. They have books in most European languages, including English.

Guy wrote: "You'll Die Next by Harry Whittington Amazon US=2.99
You'll Die Next!
These Whittington books have JUST gone on special sale. Grab 'em while it lasts."
Damn!
I paid more than .99 for my Kindle copies.
Have a couple of the original paperbacks but why mess 'em up when I can have an e-book for less than I'd pay for a cup of espresso?