Horace Mc Coy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. During his lifetime he travelled all over the US as a salesman and taxi-driver, and his varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler, and writing for films and magazines. A founder of the celebrated Dallas Little Theatre, his novels include I Should Have Stayed Home (1938), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), and They Shoot Horses, Don”t They? (1935), which was made into a film. He died in 1955.
10 Ebooks tarafından Horace McCoy
Horace McCoy: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
During the Depression, Gloria and Robert enter a dance marathon in return for three square meals a day and a chance at winning the big-money prize. Under the intense scrutiny of the media, corporate …
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Horace McCoy: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Mc Coy’s hardboiled noir classic, about an Ivy League graduate’s criminal rampage through the seedy underground and glitzy high society of an unnamed American city To escape prison, …
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Horace McCoy: Scalpel
Returning home in the wake of his brother’s death, a successful man must grapple with his coal-town roots For four generations, Colonel Tom Owen’s family has been defined by the coal busi …
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Horace McCoy: No Pockets in a Shroud
In this ingenious novel, a passionate journalist takes on his city’s rampant corruption Mike Dolan is a widely read columnist, but he’s intensely frustrated by his newspaper’s attitude toward the tru …
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Horace McCoy: Corruption City
A young law professor is hired to clean up a city strangled by corruption Nemo Crespi’s organization has a hand in everything from gambling rackets to hotels to newspapers. To combat him, the governo …
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Horace McCoy: I Should Have Stayed Home
Mc Coy’s classic, slyly funny novel about a pair of young actors trying to make it in a pitiless Hollywood For aspiring actor Ralph Carston, all roads lead to Hollywood—but none seem to b …
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Hugh B. Cave & Wyatt Blassingame: Black Mask (Fall 2017)
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horac …
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Horace McCoy: Debería haberme quedado en casa
En Hollywood hay unos veinte mil aspirantes a actores que, fascinados por la imagen que muestran las revistas, han abandonado la seguridad de una vida monótona en su ciudad natal para perseguir un su …
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Horace McCoy: Despídete del mañana
Ralph Cotter escapa brutalmente y sin mirar atrás de la prisión donde estaba recluido con la ayuda de una mujer tan atractiva como peligrosa que le envolverá en un sórdido ambiente de ladrones, estaf …
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Horace McCoy: Los sudarios no tienen bolsillos
Mike Dolan es un reportero que, harto de las componendas de una prensa sumisa y de ver cómo sus artículos terminan en la papelera, decide hacer la guerra por su cuenta. Pese a que sólo cuenta con su …
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