Robert Edmond Alter’s claim to fame may be as the writer of two classic Gold Medal crime novels, Swamp Sister and Carny Kill (both ), but he also made a dent in short fiction as well. Over 40 stories for the digests (Mike Shayne, Manhunt, Man From UNCLE, Trapped) and dozens more for slicks such as Argosy and The Saturday Evening Post. Carny Kill|Robert Edmond Alter, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)|Ana Maria Spagna, Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans (History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 1)|W. Guthrie, World Without End|Warren Murphy/10(). Carny kill Robert Edmond Alter Robert Edmond Alter Carny kill 1 It was one of those tourist traps that have turned the coast of Florida into a glittering facade. They hide the.
Robert Edmond Alter. Every once in awhile I find an old pulp story that has some real resonance because of its heritage. Robert Edmond Alter died way too young at age forty of cancer. I saw a letter of his quoted in a piece following his death. He said that he'd spent twenty years writing about men of strength and determination and now he would. Carny kill Robert Edmond Alter Robert Edmond Alter Carny kill 1 It was one of those tourist traps that have turned the coast of Florida into a glittering facade. They hide the. - Carnival culture is fertile ground for storytelling, whether we're talking about books or movies. Jack O'Connell's excellent novel The Resurrectionist (which focuses on the freak show element of a carny) comes immediately to mind, as does the movie Gun Crazy (the original one, from , which is an all-time top 10 film noir in.
Carny Kill (published in ) concerns a murder at a seedy imitation of Disney World (named Neverland) along the Florida coast. (Of course, there is much unintended irony here in that Disney now runs a theme park in Florida). Alter is a master at creating a vivid setting for his readers. "Carny Kill" is as you might suspect set in the classic carny world that was the setting for many pulp paperbacks as well as part of Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Alter does a great job of capturing that atmosphere, the world of carneys going from job to job, living in their own wo Robert Edmond Alter unfortunately only wrote a couple of pulp novels since he was primarily a children's book author. Carny Kill|Robert Edmond Alter, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)|Ana Maria Spagna, Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans (History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 1)|W.
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