
Perfect Murders
Horace L. Gold(Author)
Bison Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-8032-3359-1 (ISBN)
Description
Perhaps best known for editing the popular post-World War II magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Horace L. Gold also wrote comic-book scripts for DC Comics and penned numerous pulp adventures and science-fiction stories. Perfect Murders, a collection of seven of these stories, captures the timeless emotions evoked by pulp and science fiction for the twenty-first century. Though the main character is always called Gilroy, his identity shifts from story to story: the horserace handicapper fighting for his dame, the private eye sussing out the murderer, or the hard-boiled journalist exposing the mad scientist. And though Gold uses the traditional genres-time travel, Armageddon, science gone awry, murder, extraterrestrials-Perfect Murders is nothing less than a horrific, page-turning, fictional thrill ride engineered by one of the leading science-fiction writers and editors of the mid-twentieth century. The Bison Books edition is introduced by Gold's son, E. J. Gold, offering a new perspective on these classic stories.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Nebraska
United States
Publishing group
University of Nebraska Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-3359-1 (9780803233591)
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Persons
Horace L. Gold (1914-96) wrote for DC Comics during the early 1940s until he was drafted. After his discharge, he brought a fresh, more nuanced approach to the science-fiction genre as editor of Galaxy Science Fiction. During the post-World War II science-fiction boom, Gold was known for introducing new writers, hiring illustration pioneers, and publishing a beautiful, high-quality magazine. E. J. Gold is an artist, writer, and jazz musician who collaborated with his father, Horace L. Gold, on several novels in the 1960s and whose science-fiction stories and articles have appeared in several magazines, including Omni Magazine.
Content
Introduction by E. J. Gold
At the Post
I Know Suicide
Love in the Dark
A Matter of Form
The Old Die Rich
Perfect Murder
Problem in Murder
At the Post
I Know Suicide
Love in the Dark
A Matter of Form
The Old Die Rich
Perfect Murder
Problem in Murder