Twenty-one Classic Hardboiled Noir Crime Fiction Books by Charles Williams
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Overview: Charles Williams (August 13, 1909 – ca. April 7, 1975) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel Hill Girl, sold over a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for the screen, most popularly Dead Calm.
Of Williams's twenty-two novels, sixteen were paperback originals—eleven of them Gold Medals; he is described by Gorman as "the best of all the Gold Medal writers."Pulp historian Woody Haut calls Williams the "foremost practitioner" of the style of suspense that typified American pulp literature from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s: "So prolific and accomplished a writer was Charles Williams that he single-handedly made many subsequent pulp culture novels seem like little more than parodies."Fellow hardboiled author John D. MacDonald cites him as one of the most undeservedly neglected writers of his generation. O'Brien, singling him out as especially "overdue" for "wider appreciation," describes Williams as a stylist consistently faithful to "the narrative values which make his books so entertaining and his present neglect so inexplicable."
Genre: Mystery Hardboiled Crime Fiction
Titles Include --
A Touch of Death (1954; Gold Medal 434)
Aground (1960; Viking hc)
All The Way (1958; Dell A165)
And The Deep Blue Sea (1971; Signet pb)
Big City Girl (1951; Gold Medal 163)
Dead Calm (1963; Viking hc)
Girl Out Back (1958; Dell B114)
Go Home, Stranger (1954; Gold Medal 371)
Gulf Coast Girl (1955; Macmillan hc [reprint: Dell 898])
Hell Hath No Fury (1953; Gold Medal 286)
Hill Girl (1951; Gold Medal 141)
Man on a Leash (1973; Putnam hc)
Man On The Run (1958; Gold Medal 822)
Nothing In Her Way (1953; Gold Medal 340)
River Girl (1951; Gold Medal G207)
Talk of The Town (1958; Dell A164)
The Big Bite (1956; Dell A114)
The Diamond Bikini (1956; Gold Medal s607)
The Long Saturday Night (1966; New American Library hc)
The Sailcloth Shroud (1960; Viking hc [reprint: Dell D410])
The Wrong Venus (1966; New American Library hc)
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IF ANYONE HAS CLASSIC NOIR/MYSTERY TO SHARE OR POST, including the Prologue Crime Series, and any other vintage titles by the likes of Dan Marlowe, Peter Rabe, Lionel White, Charles Williams, Gil Brewer, etc. please post and/or PM me about sharing. Let's help keep this hard-boiled vintage fiction alive!
Requirements: MOBI EPUB or PDF READER -- 30.6 MB
Overview: Charles Williams (August 13, 1909 – ca. April 7, 1975) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel Hill Girl, sold over a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for the screen, most popularly Dead Calm.
Of Williams's twenty-two novels, sixteen were paperback originals—eleven of them Gold Medals; he is described by Gorman as "the best of all the Gold Medal writers."Pulp historian Woody Haut calls Williams the "foremost practitioner" of the style of suspense that typified American pulp literature from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s: "So prolific and accomplished a writer was Charles Williams that he single-handedly made many subsequent pulp culture novels seem like little more than parodies."Fellow hardboiled author John D. MacDonald cites him as one of the most undeservedly neglected writers of his generation. O'Brien, singling him out as especially "overdue" for "wider appreciation," describes Williams as a stylist consistently faithful to "the narrative values which make his books so entertaining and his present neglect so inexplicable."
Genre: Mystery Hardboiled Crime Fiction
Titles Include --
A Touch of Death (1954; Gold Medal 434)
Aground (1960; Viking hc)
All The Way (1958; Dell A165)
And The Deep Blue Sea (1971; Signet pb)
Big City Girl (1951; Gold Medal 163)
Dead Calm (1963; Viking hc)
Girl Out Back (1958; Dell B114)
Go Home, Stranger (1954; Gold Medal 371)
Gulf Coast Girl (1955; Macmillan hc [reprint: Dell 898])
Hell Hath No Fury (1953; Gold Medal 286)
Hill Girl (1951; Gold Medal 141)
Man on a Leash (1973; Putnam hc)
Man On The Run (1958; Gold Medal 822)
Nothing In Her Way (1953; Gold Medal 340)
River Girl (1951; Gold Medal G207)
Talk of The Town (1958; Dell A164)
The Big Bite (1956; Dell A114)
The Diamond Bikini (1956; Gold Medal s607)
The Long Saturday Night (1966; New American Library hc)
The Sailcloth Shroud (1960; Viking hc [reprint: Dell D410])
The Wrong Venus (1966; New American Library hc)
Download Instructions:
https://mega.nz/#!S4dhmQDS!fE4OHwuSw8m0qud1s94C1tzdVsNVSsilYh1dJvA2P0s
New MEGA LINK as of 11/20/15
Mirror:
http://mir.cr/SWO1AVAY
IF ANYONE HAS CLASSIC NOIR/MYSTERY TO SHARE OR POST, including the Prologue Crime Series, and any other vintage titles by the likes of Dan Marlowe, Peter Rabe, Lionel White, Charles Williams, Gil Brewer, etc. please post and/or PM me about sharing. Let's help keep this hard-boiled vintage fiction alive!
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