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Tag Archives: detective
Pulp Consumption: Psych
HAPPY NEW YEAR! One aspect of pulp both Matt and I haven’t really touched upon is humor. Pulp is often thought of as being a serious genre, and since so much of it is focused on grit, violence, and noir … Continue reading
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Tagged detective, humor, John Wick, private investigator, psychic, television
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Pulp Consumption: Justified
Long Hard Times to Come JUSTIFIED was a law-and-crime show that ran for six seasons on FX, and starred Timothy Olyphant as US Marshall Raylan Givens and Walton Goggins as the criminal Boyd Crowder. The show was based off characters … Continue reading
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Tagged action, detective, Elmore Leonard, hard-boiled, hillbilly, Kentucky, Pulp, television
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Pulp Appeal: Erle Stanley Gardner
You can’t read pulp fiction, particularly gumshoe detective stories, without stumbling across Erle Stanley Gardner. The guy was such a prolific writer that the eighty, yes EIGHTY, novels he wrote featuring his most famous character, Perry Mason, don’t even account … Continue reading
Pulp Appeal: Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett lived the life of a hard-boiled detective before he created one of his own. His Continental Op character was one of the most popular detectives of the 1920s pulp fiction era. Hammett’s work with the Op and other … Continue reading
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Tagged Dashiell Hammett, detective, golden age of pulp, hard-boiled, influence, magazine, pulp fiction, radio
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