22 Books of Johnny Liddell Series by Frank Kane (.ePUB)
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Twenty Two Books (12 Novels, 2 Collections, 8 Stories) of Johnny Liddell Series by Frank Kane
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Overview: Frank Kane‘s New York private eye JOHNNY LIDDELL was the quintessential fifties private eye, comfortably and even enjoyably generic, an endlessly malleable amalgamation of everything that made that decade’s dicks swing. Created by Kane for an 1944 and went on to write countless novels and short stories about him. His paperback covers were often top-notch, with covers by some of the hottest illustrators of the day and he made frequent appearances in all the crime digests, including Manhunt and Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.
Johnny started out as an agency man, but by Bullet Proof (1951), he was out on his own, with his own New York agency. In fact, Johnny was so generic that as the genre evolved, so did he. Originally, pretty much a riff on Hammett’s Continental Op, but the fifties he was riffing closer to Spillane’s Mike Hammer, somehow younger, slimmer, sexier and altogether more prone to violence than in his earlier incarnation. Nonetheless, it was a solid series, nothing really exceptional, perhaps, but fondly regarded by many. It got the job done, sorta like Johnny.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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