Drawn to Evil and The Scarlet Spade
$ 20.00
Author: Harry Whittington and Eaton K. C Goldthwiate
Publisher: Ace Double D-5
Year: 1952 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.35
Condition: Book Grades. Good. Moderate wear
Genre: Fiction/GGA/Crime/Mystery/Pulp
Pages: 120/184
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Drawn to Evil
- Genre: Hardboiled Crime Fiction / Film Noir.
- Summary: Written by pulp fiction pioneer Harry Whittington, the story follows a narrator who becomes deeply obsessed with a beautiful woman named Liza Flynn. He launches a relentless pursuit to track down her husband's killer. Fueled by personal ambition and dark desire, his investigation pulls him straight into the dangerous underbelly of a city's crime syndicate. While it functions as a conventional mystery, the plot ultimately takes a violent, amoral, and incredibly dark turn.
The Scarlet Spade
- Genre: Hardboiled Detective Mystery / Vintage Sleaze Fiction.
- Summary: Written by Eaton K. Goldthwaite (originally under the title Cut for Partners), this novel features his recurring series character, police Lieutenant Joseph Dickerson. The plot centers around a gambling man trapped in a high-stakes, deadly game of "killer take all". It weaves a steamy, fast-moving love story filled with underhanded, seedy characters and realistic criminal plots.
