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A truck driver employed by Murdock Motor Freight, Bookie Barnes is a tough working class hero. Though not a detective per se, he is a rough customer described as "tall, heavy-chested, with a build you see only in physical culture ads, and, though barely twenty-six, he'd been on the trucks for three years." He is emblematic of the type of crime fighters found in pulp fiction in that he represents the typical readership of pulp fiction: an average working-class audience.


Written by one of the greats of the detective pulps, Robert Reeves-who was tragically killed in World War II-this book collects all of his Bookie Barnes stories: "Murder in High Gear," "Over a Barrel," and "Murder Without Death," as well as his lone, non-series character story, "Dance Macabre."


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  • ISBN-13: 9781618276056
  • ISBN-10: 1618276050
  • Publisher: Popular Publications
  • Publish Date: November 2021
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.54 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.77 pounds
  • Page Count: 236

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