Archive for 'Mystery'
Detective Fiction: From Edgar Allen Poe to Pulp Fiction
By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Pulp writers had a field day with their fictional detective creations during the golden age of pulp fiction. From Lady Molly of Scotland Yard to Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe to Hercule [...]
Zombies from Pulp Fiction to the Silver Screen
By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Modern fiction and movies are beset by a plague of zombies—shuffling semblances of living beings that are generally bent on destroying those actually still alive and devouring either their brains [...]
The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie
By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News One of the favorite genres of the early pulp fiction magazine writers of the 1930s and 1940s the mystery genre. To writers like Dashiell Hammett, Walter B. Gibson and L. [...]
The Typewriter & Those Amazing Pulp Fiction Stories!
By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News In an age in which Microsoft Corporation’s updates and digital downloads are a routine part of our lives, it’s easy to forget an integral invention that made it all possible—the [...]
Pulp Fiction Unites Hollywood, Gangsters, Cops & Jean Harlow
By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News On March 9, 1911, the blond bombshell Jean Harlow was born. The platinum blonde actress Jean Harlow only lived to the age of twenty-six, but in her short time on [...]
Magic, Mystery and The Shadow from the Golden Age of Pulps!
By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News Although Walter B. Gibson is best known as the man who wrote over two hundred stories featuring The Shadow, it is a little-known fact that he also performed magic tricks, [...]
Prohibition and Its Influence on Pulp Fiction, The Mafia and Hollywood
By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News During the Roaring Twenties and lingering on into the 1930s and the Great Depression, America was a turbulent society, exploding with excitement, desperation and crime. True-life tragedies and the highest [...]
This Week in History: ‘The Maltese Falcon’ & The 14th Annual Academy Awards
The 14th Annual Academy Awards were held on February 26, 1942. The beginning of 1942 was rough. The US had just entered World War II the previous month after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the [...]
Celebrating a Pulp Fiction Renaissance
It was freedom, reckless and wonderful. It was the allure of faraway lands, the beckoning whisper of a beautiful woman, the thrill of a duel to the death. It was the pulps. And to thirty million [...]
The Art of Detection: From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade
By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News The most final and irreversible crime is murder. Murder is sometimes personal, often bloody, usually messy and almost always cause for investigation—and that includes the science of investigating a crime. [...]
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