Overall, you don't need to read this unless your favorite flavor of crime is 1940s Hollywood noir.
It's fast-paced with well-sketched characters and a good plot whose violence revolves around sex, ambition and jaded dreams.Synopsis: a classic novel of sexual obsession and murder in Hollywood in the 1940s.Born in 1912 in Marine City, Michigan, Stephen Gould Fisher was thirteen when he sold his first story to a magazine. Hollywood. No matter which edition you pick up, it is a dark, hardboileIf you love hardboiled crime fiction from the forties and fifties like I do, you will absolutely feast on this Steve Fisher novel. Black Lizard, one of the great modern crime fiction publishing houses, republished it in 1991. Later, Fisher updated the novel in 1961, perhaps to appeal to contemporary (at that time) readers. Book comes out in '41, the now classic movie came out in '41...hmmm DNF. Published I Wake Up Screaming (originally titled Hot Spot) is a 1941 film noir.
Another early dark tale of Hollywood and its demonic gamble. Così il dizionario della lingua italiana. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The newspapers scream out headlines that spark terror across the city. Another early dark tale of Hollywood and its demonic gamble. I thought I would like the novel since I did enjoy both movies.This book is less-than-fine. Goodreads members who liked this book also liked:
No matter which edition you pick up, it is a dark, hardboiled platter of goodness that I really enjoyed. And in the rear it says, "A movie version appeared in 1941." Find books like I Wake Up Screaming from the world’s largest community of readers. It was originally published in 1941 and immediately made into a hit movie starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature.
A Hollywod screenwriter becomes involved with a woman working the switchboard at the studio and with some others takes some steps to make her a star. Hard for anyone but Parker, becau…Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. Crime and murder, of course, and flight from the law. Edition being reviewed: Bantam Books, 1960. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Nevertheless the story crackles along nicely and the twist was hard to guess. Later, Fisher updated the novel in 1961, perhaps to appeal to contemporary (at that time) readers. Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Orders Try Prime Cart. On the cover of this Vintage edition it says "The classic novel....[takes place] amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s." He becomes involved with her (and her sister) as does one of his partners. Black Lizard, one of the great modern crime fiction publishing houses, republished it in 1991. At 157 pages, it is typical of crime novels of the forties and fifties in length. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. Steve Fisher wastes a truly memorable character, noir cop Ed Cornell, in this name-dropping Hollywood whodunit, which is amateurishly plotted and overrun with italics and exclamation points. Edition being reviewed: Bantam Books, 1960. Near as I can figure it Fisher re-wrote the novel that was originally published in 1941 sometime later. Oddly, the Black Lizard edition I read seems to be a version updated by the author himself in 1960 and contains references to Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, etc. If you love hardboiled crime fiction from the forties and fifties like I do, you will absolutely feast on this Steve Fisher novel. At 157 pages, it is typical of crime novels of the forties and fifties in length.Unbelievable that this is from 1941, it's so fast and self aware.
His fiercely loyal agent finds him just such a place in a luxurious forgotten mansion high in the Holly…T.J. Hence there is an uneasy balance to the incidentals in the plot and it's hard to get a fix on in which time period the story is taking place.
A crazed, obsessed detective.
Ten murders on the New York City sub…Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence.
But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with th…For more than a year, Kit McKittrick languishes in a Fascist prison, his days spent in darkness and his nights tortured by fear of his limping jailer, whose name he never learns. Book comes out in '41, the now classic movie came out in '41...hmmm Sexual obsession and murder in Hollywood in the '40's/'50's....doesn't get any better than that for a crime/noir plot. The narrative doesn't propel forward, but rather hover circularly around 3 things you learn at page 40. A dark psychological thriller that's part murder mystery and part love triangle, I Wake Up Screaming was originally published in 1941. The reader follows the narration of junkie William Lee, who …When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. He was still in the service when he began to publish stories and articles in US Navy and Our Navy.
I Wake Up Screaming.
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