editions-but we didn't know it was this extensive. We knew Brazil had produced some pulp style paperbacks-much of the art was repurposed from U.S. We can tell you this-we love Brazil, have been there for carnaval, and if we'd known these books were down there we'd have brought back more than just a long lasting cachaça hangover. It was actually launched in 2017, but we saw it only recently. But for that reason it's exciting to see someone launch something new-especially dedicated to such an exotic (from our point of view) niche of paperback style. Maybe in the age of Twitter and Instagram, blogs with actual words have died. Somehow or other, regretfully, we've outlasted many of them. We started our webpage in 2008 and back then we had a lot of company. We wanted to call attention one last time to an interesting Facebook page dedicated to vintage crime paperbacks published in Brazil by Edições de Ouro and Editora Tecnoprint. Wade Miller-who was really Bob Wade and Bill Miller acting as one-started his/their career on a good note with this one. Overall, Deadly Weapon is well written, well paced, and well characterized (if a bit saccharine in the romantic subplot). He even uses his car to ram another auto and its occupants over a cliff. Some of the action is centered around a burlesque theatre and its headlining peeler Shasta Lynn, but the deadly weapon isn't a femme fatale, as implied by the art, but Walter James himself. It's about an Atlanta detective who drives to San Diego to avenge the death of his partner, and as befits such a concept, features excellent Sam Spade-like repartee between main character Walter James and a local cop named Austin Clapp.
The brush behind this cover for Wade Miller's 1946 debut thriller Deadly Weapon was paperback vet Bob Abbett, and it's one of his better pieces in a portfolio filled with top efforts. Now you have to pay the uncover charge or get out. Robert Wade died, 92 years old, on Sept 30, 2012.You paid the cover charge to get in. Several of their novels have since been reprinted, including Badge of Evil and Kitten with a Whip. In 2005, publishing imprint Hard Case Crime reprinted Wade and Miller's Branded Woman. Miller passed away on Augand Wade began working more in movies and television. Their 1959 novel Kitten with a Whip was the basis for the 1964 film of the same name, which was used in Episode #615 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Other films based on their novels include Guilty Bystander ( 1950), A Cry in the Night ( 1956) based on All Through the Night, The Yellow Canary ( 1963) based on Evil Come, Evil Go, Warning Shot based on 711-Officer Needs Help and The Death of Me Yet ( 1971). Their most famous work is likely the Orson Welles film Touch of Evil based on their novel Badge of Evil.
Other pseudonyms include Wade Miller and Will Daemer. Whit Masterson was one of several pen names used by American authors Robert Allison Wade ( 1920 – 2012) and H.
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