Richard Deming – författare

In Listening on All Sides, Richard Deming finds an intersection of literature and philosophy in the poetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams that offers aesthetic models for the construction of community. Building on the work of Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and J. L. Austin, Deming challenges current trends in American literary studies and advances the newly developing field of ordinary language criticism. Continental literary theory and Anglo-American philosophy work together in this book to uncover the role literary texts play in the way that language use creates and defines culture.

''''The gallows in my garden, people say,Is new and neat and adequately tall.I tie the noose on in a knowing wayAs one that knots his necktie for a ball;But just as all the neighbors . . . on the wail . . .Are drawing a long breath to shout ''Hurray!''The strangest whim has seized me . . . After allI think I will not hang myself today.''''--From G. K. Chesterton’s A Ballade of SuicideYoung Donald Lawson was familiar with that poem . . . yet now his body hung dead on a crag. Murder or suicide, Manville Moon was already on the case, as bodyguard to Don''s beautiful sister Grace. For Grace''s life was threatened, too, and to protect it Moon found himself crossing fists and guns with hired killers, and fencing desperately with Grace''s friends, family, and fiancé, anyone of whom might have wanted to kill her.

Manny Moon is back! (also published as Whistle Past the Graveyard)

It was just Manny Moon''s luck - or misfortune - that he decided to dine at El Patio the evening the Lieutenant Governor was shot.

Betty Case opened her eyes, fear gripping her. She lay very still for a moment, listening. Then she heard the sound again, like someone walking on the roof.Instantly she thought of the cat burglar, who’d been terrorizing his victims with an axe. She sat up and reached for the gun under her pillow.A rasping sound came from the hall window; the she heard footsteps outside the bedroom door. She held her breath, her eyes straining in the darkness, her hand gripping the gun tighter.Suddenly the door opened. A shadowy figure stood there, a glittering blade in his hand. Betty screamed and pulled the trigger—setting off a chain of events that enmeshed her deeper and deeper in a vicious game of murder and violence.

Prostitution, dope, gambling, and murder!As a town, St. Cecilia was anything but saintly—prostitution, dope, gambling, the works. Matt Rudd of the Vice Squad had the lurid inside story. But he was helpless as long as crooked politicos like Nick Bartkowiak and his right-hand goon, Little Artie Nowack, kept the Police Commissioner under their thumb. Then the strangling of one of Little Artie’s call girls raised a few eyebrows, especially Rudd’s. And when his questions brought him face-to-face with a gun, a five-gallon bucket and a sack of plaster of Paris, even the cowering Commissioner had to face facts—shoot to kill! All-out war on the underworld!

One surprise deserves another.“Think you’ll need any help, Sergeant?” Lieutenant Wynn asked Matt Rudd.“I don’t think so, sir,” Rudd said.“Kuzniki is a dangerous, but he doesn’t know I’m here.”“O.K.,” Wynn said. “I’m going to lunch.”With his back to the door, Rudd hadn’t seen Kuzniki enter the hotel lobby. As he turned around, Kuzniki’s hand darted to a shoulder holster and he swept out a .38 automatic. Rudd froze in position, then slowly raised his hands.“You must be slowing down, Matt,” Kuzniki said. “First time I’ve been able to take you.”“It’ll be the last, too,” Rudd said angrily.“That’s right, Matt—I’ll see to that.”

Jud Sands lived on the edge of the law. When he blew into Ridgeford he had exactly twenty-four dollars in his pocket - it had cost a lot of money just to stay alive after he’d been fingered by Big Mark Fallon . . .But he had his gun.He had his wits.And there was nowhere else to go . . .Then there was the beautiful red-head, Bridge O’Rourke. She helped Jud in more ways than one . . .But Fallon’s boys were closing in for the kill. Not all the Bridgets in the world could save his hide if they got their hands on him . . . which they would . . .

Velda toyed with men. Sometimes she gave them what they wanted - sometimes not. But her games were somewhat limited by her marriage. For every time her husband found out about one of her flings, there were jealous rages. If he got mad enough, no allowance that week.Velda was, in fact, becoming tired of the whole mess.Then suddenly the husband was dead and Velda was a rich widow.So, if you were a cop, what would you think . . .

He never should have gotten into it in the first place. But when you need money, sometimes you things you wouldn’t ordinarily think of doing. Nothing illegal, nothing like blackmail, something just a shade this side . . .At least that was the way Barney Calhoun had it figured. It looked like the easiest ten thousand bucks he’d ever make. And she was lovely, though in the end she led him to murder . . .An ex-cop turned private eye ought to know all the answers on how to commit the perfect crime. But somewhere along the line, he slipped up, and before he realized it they had him where the hair was short.

If someone had told Gamble Clancy Ross that a stenographer—just out of secretarial school, at that—could start a gang war, he would have grinned and suggested an immediate sojourn in a mental institution for the prognosticator.Even if that same someone had described the chick in question—blond, shaped like a Don Juan’s dream girl and measuring 38-28-38—he still would have suggested a tonic for tired blood and mental fatigue.And yet that’s exactly what happened. Stella Parsons just happened to be privy to information which would put a Syndicate biggie on the hot seat. Clancy just happened to think it would be a waste of natural resources to expose Stella to the disease known as rigor mortis, and he therefore endangered his own future enjoyment of Stella’s services (nonsecretarial) by engaging two rival gangs in a war for the control of town ironically named Saint Stephen.

“Are you just going to stand there,” Sharon asked the vice cop, “or do you want to join in the game?”It was in the line of duty, Matt kept telling himself as he played at love with the wild teenager. Just enough to gain her confidence—and an invitation to the orgies at the big house.But in the end, Matt was far more deeply involved with Sharon than a cop had any right to be. When the wild party began, it was too late to prevent a murder.And the vice cop was marked for victim number two.

Manny Moon, the agile one-legged detective, is back on a case involving the son of his old friend Ed Brighton.Young Joe Brighton had been found by the police standing over the dead body of Bart Meyers, president of the Purple Pelicans - a juvenile gang to which Joe belonged. The knife used to kill Bart belonged to Joe’s father, and the police believed they had an open-and-shut case. But Manny didn’t think Joe was a killer and when he started investigating he uncovered some very dangerous information that exposed a gang of dope peddlers. Manny had to keep one step ahead of them to save his own life and clear Joe from the murder charge.

The first two bodies were found in Lovers'' Lane. The man was dead. His girlfriend, still alive, described the stick-up artist as of medium build, wearing glasses, mild-mannered, and courteous. If was a description that fit half the male population of Los Angeles. It was almost the only clue Joe Friday and Frank Smith had to catch the murderer.

Then the courteous killer struck again -- and again! The last time Joe Friday was waiting for him with a gun. When the criminal escaped with only a bullet wound, he vowed revenge -- and mailed an unsigned, misspelled note that read: YOU THINK YOUR A SMART BADGE. NOBODY BURNS ME AND LIVES, COP. START SWEATING.

Casey Denver, soldier of fortune, is back from helping Castro win his revolution, and he knows a secret. A Group of Batista bandits are hiding out with four million dollars stolen from the Cuban treasury. Casey wants that four million, and three beautiful women are willing to help him get it. Diane -- uninhibited and untamed, who doesn''t want money but definitely wants a man...any man. Magdalena -- calculating but far from cold, who also wants a man...the one who ends up with the four million dollars. And Marie, lush and lonely, who only wants Casey Denver...with or without the money! A classic crime novel.

After the horror of Pearl Harbor, American forces in the Pacific had a long way to come back. With the nucleus of their battleship and carrier fleet destroyed, they had to rely on the much-scorned submarines of the Silent Service.

Jack McCrary, like his comrades in the submarine service, was determined not to let them down. In his battered "pig boat," the ''Manta,'' he led an ocean-wide attack on Japanese freighters and battleships that held the vaunted Imperial Navy to a standstill.

Back home, the McCrary clan, an all-Navy family, had its own problems. Helen, the free-loving sister, was sometimes a boost, but more often a menace to wartime morale. And Dad, the Admiral, was slipping fast toward dying.

And Jack McCrary, who with his dauntless crew had been the scourge of the Marshalls and the South China Sea, suddenly appeared to be losing his grip, as something unseen attacked his mind and body...

Richard Deming (1915-1983) wrote prolifically for magazines (more than 200 short stories) as well as for major book publishers (more than two dozen novels, ranging from original crime novels to media tie-ins (Dragnet and The Mod Squad) to even a pseudonymous nautical series involving submarines. He was a meticulous professional who never disappointed readers.

Included here are 15 of his best crime tales, including:

THE ART OF DEDUCTIONTHE CLOCK IS CUCKOOSAY IT WITH FLOWERSSTOLEN GOODSMR. OLEM''S SECRETCHEERSHE''LL KILL YOUA GIRL MUST BE PRACTICALACTING JOBBLACK BELTA PUTTING AWAY OF TOYSDAN AND THE DEATH-CELL BLUFFHOUSEBOATNICE GUYA GOOD FRIENDTHIS IS MY NIGHT (Novel Sample)DRAGNET: THE CASE OF THE COURTEOUS KILLER (Novel Sample)PACIFIC STANDOFF (Novel Sample)

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When Clancy Ross hires a new woman to work in his night club, he gets more than he bargained for. She has a secret that just might get her dead...and Ross, too!

Richard Deming (1915-1983) was an American pulp writer who specialised in mystery and detective fiction. In addition to original novels, he found a lucrative niche writing books based on movies TV series (such as Dragnet) and also ghost-wrote no less than ten "Ellery Queen" novels. In addition to numerous stand-alone books and stories, he created series featuring Manville (Manny) Moon and Matt Rudd. This volume provides a great sampling of his work. Included are:

HOMICIDE, INC.FOR VALUE RECEIVEDMUGGER MURDERSTRANGERS IN THE HOUSETHE BLONDE IN THE BARHIT AND RUNTHE HAPPY MARRIAGESAUCE FOR THE GANDERA LITTLE SORORICIDETHE PRICE OF FAMEFALSE ALARMERRAND BOYTHE MOST ETHICAL MAN IN THE BUSINESSHONEYMOON CRUISETHE MONSTER BRAINTHE JOLLY JUGGLERS, RETIREDAN ELEMENT OF RISKMAGGIE''S GRIPPREMARITA''L AGREEMENTGUARDIAN OF THE HEARTHTHE EVILS OF DRINKMOTHER LOVEFRIENDLY WITNESS

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When Lawrence Randall offers detective Manville "Manny" Moon a cool $1,500 for a couple days low-risk work, he should have known there would be a catch. And sure enough, there is -- enough that he should have charged double...

Moon doesn''t put up with nonsense. And once he''s on a case, he won''t stop until he sees it through to the end. Never mind that he only has one leg (lost in the second World War...it''s 1948). He always gets his man. Or his woman.

"Manville ''Manny'' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He''s tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he''s a whole lot more. He''s pulp, through and through, but he also displays a compassionate side that neatly echoes or anticipates Lew Archer, Dan Fortune et al." -- thrillingdetective.com

One-legged detective Manville "Manny" Moon returns for the second classic case!

"Manville ''Manny'' Moon is one of the great unknown series eyes that somehow slipped through the cracks. He''s tough, honest and handy with the wisecracks, but he''s a whole lot more. He''s pulp, through and through, but he also displays a compassionate side that neatly echoes or anticipates Lew Archer, Dan Fortune et al." -- thrillingdetective.com