Someone asked about collections of stories from Manhunt. I
have a few:
DAMES, DANGER, DEATH; editor, Leo Margulies, Pyramid, 1960.
Blurb:
"Shell Scott, Mike Shayne, Peter Chanbers and company --
Eight tough private eyes in their most sensational cases."
Also has a Curt Cannon
(Ed McBain) and a Richard Marsten (also Ed McBain).
THE YOUNG PUNKS; editor Leo Margulies, Pyramid, 1957. JD
stuff. Blurb:
"These are the ordinary kids you read about every day --
'ordinary' until they shoot a storekeeper, rape a girl,
torture a bum or wind up dead in a ditch." Stories by
Prather, Marsten, Evan Hunter (Ed McBain), Gil Brewer, Hal
Ellson and the usual suspects.
THE VIOLENT ONES; editor Brant House (a "House" name?), Ace,
1958. More JD stuff. Blurb: "They are the teen-agers whose
street games are played with knives, saps and zip guns."
Stories by Hunter, Brewer, Ellson, etc.
And a few single author collections, drawn all or mainly from
MANHUNT:
THE JUNGLE KIDS; JD and general crime stories by Evan Hunter,
Dell original, 1956. Very good stuff here by a master. More
of the same can be found in the recent Ed McBain collection,
THE McBAIN BRIEF, including a couple reprinted from THE
JUNGLE KIDS.
THE NAME IS JORDAN; Scott Jordan shorts by Harold Q. Masur,
Pyramid, 1962. Masur is a much unappreciated writer, medium
boiled, somewhat in the direction of Rex Stout.
SHELL SCOTT'S SEVEN SLAUGHTERS and THREE'S A SHROUD; by
Richard S. Prather. What can I say? "A magnet for broads, a
target for hoods." My man.
BobT
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