More Good Old Stuff
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (974 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00NERQTN8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 522 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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D. He served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and in 1972 was elected a Grand Master, an honour granted only to the greatest crime writers of their generation, including Ross MacDonald, John Le Carre and P. About the Author John D. MacDonald was born in Pennsylvania and married Dorothy Prentiss in 1937, graduating from Syracuse University the following year and receiving an MBA from Harvard in 1939. One of the best-loved and most successful of all the masters of hard-boiled crime and suspense, John D. . His no
He won many awards throughout his long career, and was the only mystery writer ever to win the National Book Award, for The Green Ripper. His novels are often set in his adopted home of Florida, including those featuring his famous series character Travis McGee, which appeared between 1964 and 1985. D. It was initially rejected by Esquire but went on to
Offering indisputable evidence of the early talent that was to lead him to the top of the bestseller lists everywhere, these fourteen tales of crime and corruption, of sleuthing and suspense, of treachery, intrigue, and revenge, by the incomparable John D. MacDonald, were selected from the hundreds that originally appeared in the immensely popular pulp magazines of the late 1940s.Superb entertainment from one of crime's most famous and accomplished writers.'The stories share MacDonald's love of a buzz ending and the biting setup' Chicago Sun-Times
The name says it all P. Woodland This book of short stories was so good 30 years ago when I read it that I decided to read it again. One of the benefits of growing old is that it will be new again.. EARLY PULP FICTION STORIES BY JOHN D. MACDONALD Loren D. Morrison Two years before putting together this 1984 anthology, MacDonald published what amounted to a first volume of some his early stories that had been published in various pulp fiction magazines. This anthology, __MORE GOOD OLD STUFF__ is a second volume of those stories. The 14 stories published here and the roughly equivalent numbe. Largely for the Afficionado Ruth Dubb If you love John D. MacDonald, you will definitely want to seek this one out, if only to see how a great writer begins, before he hits his stride. This collection of his old short stories written for cheesy detective magazines in the forties shows the author's raw talent that has yet to be honed, polished and perfected. Indeed, t