I've got a copy of "True Crime, True North" myself and have
been reading through it for about a month now. Mostly it
talks about the constraints and stereotypes the stories had
rather than the stories themselves. And despite the lurid
covers throughout the book it has very schollarly text. I've
been selling them on eBay as its only available in Canada -
surprisingly I've sold two to Australia and two to the
UK!
Jesse
P.S. when I found out the book was going to be published I
asked for some promotional materials a couple of months in
advance and the publishers sent me something called a "BLAD".
Apparently "BLAD" is an acronym standing for "Book Layout And
Design". You learn something new everyday.
--- William Denton <
buff@pobox.com> wrote:
> I picked up an interesting book today: TRUE
CRIME,
> TRUE NORTH: THE GOLDEN
> AGE OF CANADIAN PULP MAGAZINES, by Carolyn
Strange
> and Tina Loo
> (Vancouver: Raincoast, 2004). It's about true
crime
> pulps from the 1940s
> and 1950s. I don't know anything about them
(yet),
> but they've been
> discussed here as a place to find
hardboiled
> nonfiction, which is a fairly
> rare bird.
>
> The book's about 7" x 10", and short at just
over
> 100 pages. The
> bibliography mentions Lee Server's DANGER IS
MY
> BUSINESS and Eddie
> Muller's DARK CITY DAMES. There are
illustrations
> on almost every page,
> and lots of cover reproductions.
>
> Any of you an afficionado of old true crime
pulps?
> What's the writing
> like? I know Jim Thompson did some work in
them,
> but I've never read any
> of it.
>
> Bill
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