word from Stark House

Email rec'd:

Hello Mystery Readers & Booksellers:

 

I'm pleased to announce that our WADE MILLER book is coming out this week--THE KILLER / DEVIL ON TWO STICKS (1933586230, $17.95).

 

"Wade Miller" is the writing team of Bob Wade and Bill Miller, and in their 15 year writing career from the late 1940's to the early 60's, they created some of the finest hardboiled fiction. Not only did they give us the dark and moody Max Thursday detective series, but they also wrote the book, BADGE OF EVIL, that Orson Welles turned into the film noir classic, TOUCH OF EVIL.

 

Bill Miller passed away in 1961, but Bob Wade continued on, eventually winning the Private Eye Writers of America's 1988 Life Achievement Award. Together, they created a wild kind of mystery magic.

 

THE KILLER is the story of a big game hunter who is hired to track down and kill a reckless bankrobber, while he himself is pursued by the bankrobber's wife. DEVIL ON TWO STICKS is a mystery told from the inside out, as a crime syndicate boss's enforcer must ferret out the traitor in their midst while falling in love with his prime suspect's daughter.

 

Two very original stories from this very creative team.

 

Bob Wade provides a new introduction, as does David Laurence Wilson, who writes about the Wade Miller career in "The Deadly Collaboration," a thorough history of the writing team. 

 

And while I'm on the subject of reprints, our last book, A SHOT IN THE DARK / SHELL GAME by Richard Powell is still available (1933586184, $14.95). A recent review by Bruce Grossman at Bookgasm points out that "Powell does an extraordinary job of keeping all the secrets hidden until the big reveal." Powell is ripe for rediscovery!

 

And as always, thanks for your continued support!

 

Cheers,

Greg Shepard, publisher

Stark House Press

---The Powell is in stock here now -- the Wade Miller doubtless will be shortly.