Cranks and Shadows
Cranks and Shadows

Author: K. C. Constantine

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 1995-02

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780892965434

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"A Mario Balzic novel".

Murdering Masculinities
Murdering Masculinities

Author: Greg Forter

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0814726917

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Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it demands that male readers take responsibility for the desires they project on to these novels. Forter examines the narrative strategies of five novels--Hammett's The Glass Key, Cain's Serenade, Faulkner's Sanctuary, Thompson's Pop. 1280, and Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol--in conjunction with their treatment of bodily metaphors of smell, vision, and voice. In the process, Forter unearths a "generic unconscious" that reveals things Freud both discovered and sought to repress.

The Best of Crank!
The Best of Crank!

Author: Bryan Cholfin

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1466861479

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The debut of CRANK! stunned the science fiction world with its disregard for obsolete notions of genre fiction, instead insisting on highly individual and imaginative fiction of literary distinction. This book presents the best from CRANK!. Voted One of the Top Ten Original Works of 1998. "If Asimov's SF and Analog are the meat and potatoes of short fiction in this field, Crank! was its Heimlich maneuver. The more we think about it, the more sense it makes that The Best of CRANK! shoved aside top-selling books from this year's most popular authors to claim a space on our Reader's Top Ten list. The only mystery is why it didn't place higher."--The SF Site Reader's Choice Awards At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

The Shadow
The Shadow

Author: Arthur Stringer

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way About the Author: Arthur Stringer (February 26, 1874 - September 13, 1950) was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States. He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other books, in addition to writing numerous filmscripts and articles. https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Stringer_(writer)