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Perfect Murders
Synopsis
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.
Contents:
- vii - Introduction (Perfect Murders) - (2010) - essay by E. J. Gold
- 1 - At the Post - (1953) - novelette by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ]
- 59 - I Know Suicide - (1947) - shortstory by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ]
- 83 - Love in the Dark - (1951) - shortstory by H. L. Gold (variant of Love Ethereal) [as by Horace L. Gold ]
- 107 - A Matter of Form - (1938) - novella by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ]
- 205 - The Old Die Rich - (1953) - novella by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ]
- 287 - Perfect Murder - (1940) - shortstory by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ]
- 297 - Problem in Murder - (1939) - novelette by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ]
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