PULP NOW: JERRY
TRACY, CELEBRITY REPORTER!
COMING SOON FROM
MYSTERIOUSPRESS.COM AND OPEN ROAD MEDIA ...
Black Mask magazine, launched in 1920, built its reputation
on fostering, and later inspiring, some of mystery’s most beloved hardboiled
writers, including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Carroll John Daly,
Theodore A. Tinsley, and Paul Cain.
These tough, grim, but ultimately noble stories of private
eyes and crooks represent an extremely powerful slice of American fiction.
Mysteriouspress.com/Open Road Media is thrilled to announce that Black Mask
stories will be available in digital format beginning August 27, 2013.
Paying homage to the original magazine, stories will be
released monthly, commencing with works by Black Mask masters Norbert Davis,
Steve Fisher, and Paul Cain, as well as an omnibus of stories by Theodore A.
Tinsley, Jerry Tracy, Celebrity Reporter.
All works feature new cover art, as well as brand-new introductions.
JERRY TRACY,
CELEBRITY REPORTER
Manhattan’s sharpest gossip columnist tangles with brawlers,
triggermen, and dames ...
The most important people in the world come to Broadway—to
eat in restaurants, dance in nightclubs, and die in rain-slicked back alleys.
Whatever the big names are doing, Jerry Tracy hears about it—and tells the
world in his infamous Daily Planet column. As quick with his typewriter as he
is with a .45, Tracy can break a nose as easily as he breaks a news story. But
beneath his hard exterior, this columnist has a kind heart, and a sense of
justice that will make him do crazy things for a woman in trouble, or a friend
with a murder rap hanging over his head.
Featuring every Jerry Tracy story ever published in Black
Mask, this collection is an invaluable compendium of one of early noir’s most
original heroes. Written in machine gun prose that would make Damon Runyon
proud, these stories describe a man whose words are tough—and whose fists are
even tougher.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Theodore A. Tinsley (1894–1979) was a prolific noir author
who wrote for all of the prominent pulp magazines, including Black Mask,
Munsey’s Magazine, All Detective Magazine, and Action Stories. His best-known
creations are Carrie Cashin, a private eye who became pulp fiction’s most
popular female character, and Jerry Tracy, a gossip reporter with a nose for
sniffing out murders.
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