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04-29-2012, 03:19 AM
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Free (nook/Kindle) Don't Cry For Me by William Campbell Gault [Vintage Pulp Mystery]
The blurb on the cover says that this won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel back in the day. Currently free @ B&N and Amazon UK, likely to drop in the main store. Description He was a heel . . . a blue-blood gone bad, a low-brow with class, a bum with an income. He liked low-slung cars and top-heavy girls, and he took his pleasure where he found it. He was the consort of bookies, dope-peddlers, crooks; the buddy of has-beens, tough guys, and junkies. He dreamed the big dream, but played it small . . . free wheeling it down hill all the way, with a crack-up—and murder—at the bottom. Too many slow horses, too many fast women, and finally, one loaded cigarette; and after that . . . trouble: a woman who wouldn’t stay, a dead man’s face that wouldn’t go away, and an alibi that wouldn’t stick . . . |
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04-29-2012, 07:18 AM
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Got it...because I'm a heel.
 Thanks. Don
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04-29-2012, 10:49 AM
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I am not usually a heel, but I got it any way.
Thank you, Apache |
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04-29-2012, 11:17 AM
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Nice. Read a few Gault stories, so cool.
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04-29-2012, 11:42 AM
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A number of Gualt's books are 99 cents today, also, as part of the Kindle Deal of the Day.
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04-29-2012, 11:59 AM
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Here's the MR thread for the 99 cent Prologue Books Kindle Deal of the Day, in case anyone wants to give/pick up recommendations.
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04-29-2012, 02:01 PM
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Don't miss this freebie by Gault. Here's why. In addition to winning the 1953 Edgar for Best First Novel, both Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald praised the book.
There's a great reprint of the original hardcover dust jacket here. |
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