Fifty-to-one
It's 1958, and a sleazy New York pulp-fiction publisher finds himself in trouble after publishing a supposedly non-fiction account of a heist at a Mafia-run nightclub which was actually written by an 18 year-old showgirl with ambitions of writing for the New Yorker. With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them.
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- Full title :Fifty-to-one / by Charles Ardai.
Summary
It's 1958, and a sleazy New York pulp-fiction publisher finds himself in trouble after publishing a supposedly non-fiction account of a heist at a Mafia-run nightclub which was actually written by an 18 year-old showgirl with ambitions of writing for the New Yorker. With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2008
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hard case Crime
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008
Notes
Includes a color gallery of all 50 Hard Case Crime covers"--Page 4 of cover
The Physical Object
- Description:333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780843959680, 0843959681, 0843959681, 9780857683243, 0857683241
- oclc:ocn232981500
- LC Classification:PB
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
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