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Loading... No Good From a Corpse (1944)by Leigh Brackett
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. http://www.fireandsword.com/Reviews/nogoodcorpse.html This is the novel that caused director Howard Hawks to tell his assistant he wanted that “Lee Brackett” guy to work on the screenplay for The Big Sleep. Arguably, Corpse is very much in the Chandler train. The PI hero, Ed Clive is a self-willed and ruggedly independent street warrior with his own code of conduct. He finds himself mixed up, quite unwillingly but as certainly as a samurai in a kabuki tale, in the affairs of Mike Hammond and his twisted in-laws. no reviews | add a review
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Laurel Dane was no angel. She'd changed men as often as she'd changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she'd like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn't believe that her boyfriend had killed her. Pursuing her own lonely trail, he found out just how easily jealousy and twisted rage could turn a human being into a monster of violence. Originally published in 1944, this is Leigh Brackett's unputdownable pulp fiction debut novel. No library descriptions found. |
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Ed Clive is hard-hitting, with his own code,he shots to kill and kisses the dames. Great read. ( )