Robert Skinner (Reihenfolge der Bücher)

Robert Skinner Reihenfolge der Bücher

Robert Skinner konzentriert sich auf den Prosa-Stil der amerikanischen Pulp- und Kriminalliteratur, mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf dem Werk des afroamerikanischen Romanautors Chester Himes. Sein Ansatz ist tief in der historischen Forschung und Bibliotheksarbeit verwurzelt, was es ihm ermöglicht, sich mit wissenschaftlicher Strenge mit der Genre-Literatur auseinanderzusetzen. Skinner untersucht Themen wie Anonymität, städtische Marginalisierung und die Suche nach Identität in den rauen Landschaften amerikanischer Städte. Durch seine Arbeit bietet er neue Perspektiven auf die Entwicklung der Kriminalliteratur und ihren sozialen Kommentar.

Pale Shadow: A Wesley Farrel Novel

226 Seiten
8 Lesestunden

Autumn, 1940--Linda Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. New Orleans' Police Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of the black woman's death until a Treasury Agent arrives on the scene. He lets Daggett know that Linda was the girlfriend of a bootlegger-turned counterfeiter, one Luis Martinez. Daggett's first find Luis.Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Wesley Farrell is looking for Luis Martinez for his own reasons.Luis is really in hot water. Not only are the cops and Farrell giving chase, but he's on the run from a blonde Spaniard named Santiago Compasso, the boss of the counterfeiting gang. Luis has run off with the key to the operation--the painstakingly constructed plates that produce twenty- and fifty-dollar bills so good they've got the boys at Engraving and Printing jealous. Compasso is worried, not only because his operation is loused up, but because he has someone of his own to answer to....Now Farrell's in a contest with both the police and Compasso to find his amigo and discover the reason behind the doublcross--if a mysterious unseen assassin doesn't get there ahead of him.