In response to Pelecanos:
I second the recommendation of this series. Great stuff. I
don't have it handy, George, but wasn't there also a leigh
Brackett title in that series? I THINK I have copies of The
Tiger Among Us and No Good From A Corpse under the Blue
Murder label, and I have here in front of me a copy of Shock
Corridor, albiet in a smaller, traditional pb-size format.
(The other BM titles were in trade format.) Looks like the
Shock Corridor (and another title I have elsewhere, Scarface,
by Armitage Trail), was in the smaller format, as "an imprint
of Xanadu Books," it says on the back cover.
Also, somehow I have scribbled notes that say the following
were either forthcoming, or already out there, but I've never
seen them:
Paul Buck, The Honeymoon Killers, L.A. Morse, The Big
Enchalida Joel Town Rogers, The Red Right Hand Jim Thompson,
Texas By the Tail Gordon Williams, Straw Dogs
FINALLY: I have another in the trade size, Dolores Hitchens,
Sleep With Strangers.
-dc
Pelecanos wrote:
> the late 80s Maxim Jakubowski edited a trade
paperback series for Simon >
Schuster called Blue Murder, which included those two titles.
The gimmick
> was that all of the books in the series had been
made into noir or noirish
> films. Maxim wrote an introduction for each book
detailing the author's
> career. Among the other titles were William
McGivern's THE BIG HEAT,
> Charles Williams's THE DIAMOND BIKINI, Gil Brewer's
13 FRENCH STREET and
THE
> RED SCARF, and Woolrich's REAR WINDOW. Most
importantly, the series
> introduced me to Thornburg's CUTTER AND BONE and
Goodis's THE BURGLAR.
All
> of the books were worthwhile reads and the cover
treatments were nicely
> done; I've managed to collect most of the series and
still see them out
> there in various stores. I noticed a couple of weeks
ago, for example,
that
> Black Orchid in New York had various titles in their
used bins.
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