Twice Murdered Laurence Donovan Tom Roberts Lyman Anderson 9781928619901 Books
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The brutal murder of a racing dog owner, the vicious killing of a dance-hall girl, the gunning down of a tough cop, and a gun battle in a hotel room are just some of the excitement you'll discover in the action-packed pages of Twice Murdered, the first collection of works by Laurence Donovan. Between 1928 and 1954, he produced hundreds of novel-length and short story works for the pulp magazines. Donovan's career including stints ghostwriting novels of Doc Savage, The Phantom Detective, The Whisperer, G-Man Dan Fowler and many more. ----- Fans of the detective story will relish this collection of twelve stories appearing for the first time in book form showcasing Donovan's band of resourceful sleuths and their deadly adversaries. ----- As a bonus is included a bibliography of Donovan's work, and a historical introduction by Tom Roberts.
Twice Murdered Laurence Donovan Tom Roberts Lyman Anderson 9781928619901 Books
TWICE MURDERED is another in the outstanding series of pulp reprint collections coming out from Black Dog Books. Laurence Donovan is probably best known for the house-name novels he wrote starring Doc Savage, The Phantom Detective, The Skipper, and The Whisperer, but he also had a long and prolific career producing detective and Western yarns for a variety of pulps. This volume collects a dozen stories published in the Thirties and Forties in the pulps PRIVATE DETECTIVE, SPICY DETECTIVE, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE, BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE, and SUPER DETECTIVE, under Donovan's name and his pseudonym Larry Dunn.Donovan had three main strengths as a writer: he was able to come up with complex plots, he used interesting settings, and he wrote fast-moving, effective action scenes. Most of the protagonists in these stories are private eyes, and like Roger Torrey's private eye characters, they share a lot of similarities despite having different names. I think Donovan's shamuses come across a little more as individuals, though.
All of the stories included here are good solid pulp tales, consistently entertaining. Some of them are stand-outs, though. "Death Dances on Dimes" is set in a dime-a-dance joint, and it's unusual in that it has a female narrator. There's something else about her that's unusual for the pulps, too, but you'll have to read the story to find out what it is. "The Man Who Came to Die" is about an insurance racket and manages to be pretty creepy while at the same time packing enough plot and action for a full-length novel into a novelette. "The Greyhound Murders" is another complicated murder mystery with an interesting setting (a dog racing track) and a high body count. "Footprint of Destiny" is about the movie business and features the sort of plot that Dan Turner is usually untangling. I guess Dan was out of town that week.
In addition to the stories, editor/publisher Tom Roberts provides a fine introduction that includes more biographical information about Donovan than I've seen anywhere else, as well as an extensive bibliography of Donovan's work. TWICE MURDERED is an excellent addition to the Black Dog Books line, and if you're a pulp fan, I highly recommend it.
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Twice Murdered Laurence Donovan Tom Roberts Lyman Anderson 9781928619901 Books Reviews
Prior to cracking open this collection from Black Dog Books, all I knew about Laurence Donovan was that he'd written a handful of Doc Savage novels.
Now I know better. Boy, do I ever. This book makes it clear that Donovan was a pulp-writing powerhouse. In a career stretching from 1928 to 1948, he turned out well over 400 stories and novelettes, plus more than 50 pulp novels featuring guys like The Phantom Detective, The Black Bat, The Whisperer, The Skipper - and yes, Doc Savage. Like many of his contemporaries, he wrote whatever the market wanted, resulting in a good mix of air war adventures, westerns and mysteries. (How do I know all this? I know, thanks to Tom Roberts' groundbreaking Introduction and overview of Donovan's career, and the eye-opening 18-page bibliography of his works.)
The amazing thing is that despite this enormous output, there has never been a book published with Donovan's name on it. Until now.
All but one of the twelve stories in TWICE MURDERED were written during the second half of his long career, and all but one originally appeared in the Trojan line of magazines (Spicy Detective, Hollywood Detective, Super-Detective and Private Detective Stories). And that, I think, is a good thing.
By 1938, Donovan had long since mastered his craft, and writing for the Trojan mags allowed him to focus on his own characters and tell stories the way he wanted them told. And he had fun doing it. That sense of enjoyment comes through strong in every tale, and makes them equally fun to read.
Donovan's style might be described as a cross between Lester Dent and Robert Leslie Bellem. He mixes Dent's wry humor and rat-a-tat-tat action with Bellem's mastery of slang. The result is consistently entertaining, and every story races to a satisfying conclusion.
TWICE MURDERED is another in the outstanding series of pulp reprint collections coming out from Black Dog Books. Laurence Donovan is probably best known for the house-name novels he wrote starring Doc Savage, The Phantom Detective, The Skipper, and The Whisperer, but he also had a long and prolific career producing detective and Western yarns for a variety of pulps. This volume collects a dozen stories published in the Thirties and Forties in the pulps PRIVATE DETECTIVE, SPICY DETECTIVE, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE, BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE, and SUPER DETECTIVE, under Donovan's name and his pseudonym Larry Dunn.
Donovan had three main strengths as a writer he was able to come up with complex plots, he used interesting settings, and he wrote fast-moving, effective action scenes. Most of the protagonists in these stories are private eyes, and like Roger Torrey's private eye characters, they share a lot of similarities despite having different names. I think Donovan's shamuses come across a little more as individuals, though.
All of the stories included here are good solid pulp tales, consistently entertaining. Some of them are stand-outs, though. "Death Dances on Dimes" is set in a dime-a-dance joint, and it's unusual in that it has a female narrator. There's something else about her that's unusual for the pulps, too, but you'll have to read the story to find out what it is. "The Man Who Came to Die" is about an insurance racket and manages to be pretty creepy while at the same time packing enough plot and action for a full-length novel into a novelette. "The Greyhound Murders" is another complicated murder mystery with an interesting setting (a dog racing track) and a high body count. "Footprint of Destiny" is about the movie business and features the sort of plot that Dan Turner is usually untangling. I guess Dan was out of town that week.
In addition to the stories, editor/publisher Tom Roberts provides a fine introduction that includes more biographical information about Donovan than I've seen anywhere else, as well as an extensive bibliography of Donovan's work. TWICE MURDERED is an excellent addition to the Black Dog Books line, and if you're a pulp fan, I highly recommend it.
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