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For the Fans of Hardboiled, Pulp & Gumshoe Art

Back in 2013, our tumblr site was started and ran until 2018, when they decided it was too "adult" - too lurid, supposedly. We followed the exodus to newtumbl and four years of dedication vanished in June of 2023. That work was not only new posts but upgrades of hundreds of old tumblr posts as well. So far, there has been no way to rescue those posts, so this will be the third version of this project. And, I'll warn you in advance, I may slip in covers that are not crime or mystery but just because I like the artwork. Enjoy!

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Day: September 13, 2024

1969 Macmillan first edition

1969 Macmillan first edition, ‘a Cock Robin Mystery’

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories crime fiction, Hardboiled, hardcover, pulpTags cock robin mystery, lawrence block, macmillan hardcoverLeave a comment on 1969 Macmillan first edition

March 1957 issue

March 1957

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories magazine, true crimeTags police dragnet cases, pulp illustration, switchbladeLeave a comment on March 1957 issue

Hollywood Hills, 1957

1957

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories film noirTags noirLeave a comment on Hollywood Hills, 1957

Hollywood’s Bonnie

Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker

1967, Bonnie and Clyde

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories gangster, HardboiledTags bonnie and clyde, faye dunaway, movie promoLeave a comment on Hollywood’s Bonnie

True Crime

Bonnie & Clyde – true crime, not Hollywood

riddled with gunfire May 23, 1934

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories true crimeTags bonnie and clydeLeave a comment on True Crime

July-August 1931 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

July-August 1931

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories crime fiction, finest kind, gangster, Hardboiled, magazine, mystery, pulpTags c.b. yorke, gangland stories magazine, george allan moffatt, shoulder holster, thug, walter baumhoferLeave a comment on July-August 1931 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

Femme Fatale

woman with a gun

a crop of Betty Lou Gerson in The Red Menace, 1949

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories crime fiction, espionage fiction, film noirTags betty lou gerson, dame, femme fatale, red scare, smoking, woman with a gunLeave a comment on Femme Fatale

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner

Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins in The Killers, 1946

Posted on September 13, 2024September 9, 2024Categories film noir, HardboiledTags ava gardner, dame, ernest hemingway, femme fatale, robert siodmakLeave a comment on Ava Gardner
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