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Nov 19, 2010 · Day Keene manages to treat a vivid and violent plot with unusual restraint and quietly convincing realism… Sex and brutality are here integral to the plot and handled with skill and taste, and the writing, in characterization, prose and movement, is the best I’ve read from the always interesting Mr. Keene.
Dec 9, 2020 · “(Day Keene creates) a plot that grips you on page one and keeps squeezing all the way to the finish.” — Evan Lewis, Forgotten Books; ROCK’N’ROLL TRIVIA! One of Keene’s first stories as “Day Keene” was “League of the Grateful Dead,” which appeared in the February 1941 issue of Dime Mystery. According to legend, Jerry Garcia ...
Gunard Hjertstedt (March 28, 1904 - January 9, 1969), better known by pen name Day Keene, was an American novelist, short story writer and radio and television scriptwriter. Keene wrote over 50 novels and was the head writer for radio soap operas Little Orphan Annie and Kitty Keene, Inc.
Oct 21, 2020 · The novel is about a private eye (Tom Doyle, another of Keene's series characters) caught in a power struggle between two factions in a gambling town. The short story features a different series character, Doc Egg, investigating a seemingly supernatural death.
Oct 30, 2020 · The protagonist, Herman Stone, is one of Keene's series characters from his pulp days, though in the novel he works for the New York Police Department whereas in the stories he is in Chicago. Part of the plot, too, is cannibalized from a pulp story.
Mar 2, 2012 · A sort of apprentice novel in which Gil Brewer turns a longish Day Keene story (“Marry the Sixth for Murder!,” Detective Tales, May 1948) into something even longer. The original story didn’t make a great deal of sense to begin with, and Brewer stayed true to his source material.
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In this collection you’ll see Day Keene doing some mighty fine pulp storytelling. He hewed to the belief that characterization (which he would refine in later years) and plenty of plot razzle dazzle was what the folks paid their dimes for and he by God was going to give it to them.
