5 books by Talmage Powell
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Overview: Talmage Powell (1920-2000) was an American writer. He began his writing career in 1942. He created over 200 stories for the pulp fiction magazines, including Black Mask and Dime Mystery, writing in almost every genre and for all of the top magazines. After the demise of the pulps, Powell continued to write another 300 plus short stories for fiction magazines such as EQMM, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mike Shayne, Manhunt and Suspense. During the 1950s and 1960s a number of successful novels were published. His Ed Rivers series is recognized as some of the best Private Investigator stories from that era. Powell also had written four novels under the Ellery Queen byline (Tim Corrigan series) as well. Powell also contributed his creative talents to screenwriting and television work. Still active in the field, Talmage Powell has had a long and successful career by delivering suspenseful, intelligent, action based stories that any reader would enjoy. He died at a hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Powell also wrote as Robert Hart Davis, Robert Henry, Milton T. Lamb, Milton T. Land, Jack McCready, Anne Talmage, and Dave Sands.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Black Cat Thrillogy #2: 3 Classic Mysteries by Talmage Powell
Welcome to the second volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s "Thrillogy" series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Talmage Powell (1920-2000). Included are:
EASY MARK
LIFE SENTENCE
REWARD FOR GENIUS
Man-Killer (1960)
Her real name was Vicky Hustin, but to the people of Big Hominy she would always be ”that uppity mountain gal, that piece of hill trash who thinks she’s so high and mighty.” And when her ex-husband was found brutally murdered, they had still another name for her: Man-killer! They also had a name for someone like Wade Calhoun, who dared to believe in Vicky’s innocence. Crazy, that’s what he was…
Short Stories
KEEP MY PICTURE THERE
SOMEBODY’S GOING TO DIE
I HAD A HUNCH, AND. . .
PROXY
A FRIENDLY EXORCISE
BEULAH
The Smasher (1959)
A telephone rang – and Steve Griffin recognized the distant, terrified voice of his wife. ”He’s trying to run me down with a car. He’s trying to smash the life out of me, Steve.” But who her pursuer was Maureen never lived to tell. What would drive an unknown man to kill Maureen, to smash out her life with an automobile which was the twin of Steve’s own?..
The Thing in B-3 – a Tale of the Supernatural (1969)
A corpse in the morgue is somehow not real…until it turns out to be an apparition of what might be if someone gets on an airplane that is destined to crash… This is one heck of a scary book. I highly recommend it to all ghost story aficionados. –Allen MacCannell, Amazon reviews
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