Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento: 1912-07
Data de falecimento: 1968
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Locais de residência: New York, New York, USA
Educação: City College of New York (BS)
Ocupação: newspaper editor
public relations
writer (freelance)
writer (radio and television)
writer (detective/crime fiction)
Organizações: New York Journal of Commerce
New York Trade Newspapers Corporation

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Crime of their life de Frank Kane

A fun read, true to the hard-boiled private detective genre (a la Sam Spade). The story never lags and the ending is a good one.

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dresdon | 1 outra resenha | Aug 20, 2023 |

Ring-a-Ding-Ding de Frank Kane

Don't look for a mystery in this one. Frank Kane lets us know right off who the bad guys are and what their scheme is. Johnny Liddell gets a call from a client who is very dead by the time he goes to meet her. What did the hatcheck girl know that had her calling Johnny and a defrauded insurance exec? The police, as usual, are always a few steps behind Johnny as he deals with a sultry torch singer and her flunky. The pair have a blackmail scheme going and pulling it off right under the nose of the Syndicate's hand-picked nightclub manager, Kane inserts several flashbacks that bring the sordid characters to life This is a great read for any of the hardboiled private eye fans out there.… (mais)

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Leischen | 1 outra resenha | Aug 9, 2023 |

Maid in Paris de Frank Kane

Excellent novel. This is not your usual Johnny Liddell novel. It actually places the NYC detective in early sixties Paris and in the midst of a hunt for Nazis and former Nazi collaborators. It combines a murder tale with spy fiction and marquis de Sade type secret rendezvoused. All in all, a lot of fun to read, just not your usual Liddell private eye fiction.

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DaveWilde | 1 outra resenha | Sep 22, 2017 |

Hearse Class Male de Frank Kane

Frank Kane's Johnny Liddell series has always been a solid hardboiled
read, not mindblowing pulpy good, but a solid read. This novel is no
exception. Although not exceptional, it is pulpy in parts and will hold
your interest.
Here, Kane seems to mix a late sixties science fiction plot about a
wonder drug and a secret conspiracy to steal the formula with an old
style private eye tale. The parts about the wonder drug and the
conspiracy didn't work too well as a plot device, but the parts featuring
Liddell and his tough-nosed spirit and his rendevouses with sultry
female agents make the book worth reading. The novel is at its best in
the bare-knuckle fight scenes, the execution-style murder, and the repartee between Liddell and the dark haired girl in the baby doll
nightgown… (mais)

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DaveWilde | outras 2 resenhas | Sep 22, 2017 |

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