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Richard Deming (1) (1915–1983)

Auteur van De dood aan de draaitafel

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Richard Deming (1) via een alias veranderd in Max Franklin.

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Werken van Richard Deming

Titels zijn toegeschreven aan Max Franklin.

De dood aan de draaitafel (1962) 72 exemplaren
Famous Investigators (1963) 27 exemplaren
Spy-In (1969) 25 exemplaren
A Groovy Way to Die (1968) 16 exemplaren
The Sock-It-To-Em Murders (1968) 16 exemplaren
The Greek God Affair (1968) 10 exemplaren
Body for Sale (1962) 9 exemplaren
Anything But Saintly (1963) 8 exemplaren
Hit and Run (1960) 8 exemplaren
The Hit (1970) 6 exemplaren
This Game of Murder (2012) 5 exemplaren

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Titels zijn toegeschreven aan Max Franklin.

100 Malicious Little Mysteries (1981) — Medewerker — 405 exemplaren
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 1 (1959) — Medewerker — 338 exemplaren
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction [2-volume set] (1959) — Medewerker — 292 exemplaren
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Hangman's Dozen (1962) — Medewerker — 143 exemplaren
Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine (1979) — Medewerker — 123 exemplaren
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons from My Closet (1963) — Medewerker — 106 exemplaren
Noose Report (1966) — Medewerker, sommige edities75 exemplaren
Happiness Is a Warm Corpse (1969) — Medewerker — 59 exemplaren
Murders on the Half Skull (1970) — Auteur, sommige edities50 exemplaren
The Best of Fiends (1972) — Medewerker, sommige edities42 exemplaren
Rolling Gravestones (1971) — Medewerker — 35 exemplaren
Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas (1999) — Medewerker — 34 exemplaren
Killers at Large (1978) 16 exemplaren
Best Detective Stories of the Year: 17th Annual Collection (1962) — Medewerker — 6 exemplaren
Hitchcocktail — Auteur, sommige edities5 exemplaren
Best Detective Stories of the Year - 1953 (1953) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Best Detective Stories of the Year: 18th Annual Collection (1963) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Manhunt, Vol. 1, No. 10, October 1953 (1953) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Best American Detective Stories of the year-1956 (1957) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Best of the Best Detective Stories (1960) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar

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Gangbare naam
Deming, Richard
Officiële naam
Deming, Richard Franklin
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Franklin, Max
Geboortedatum
1915-04-25
Overlijdensdatum
1983-09-05
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Ventura, California, USA

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This was going to be a 2.5 star book. It was a bit tedious. You knew where the plot was going, but it was taking a long time to get there without much going on. Then, right at the end, everything blows up. It was so good, I had to bump it to 4 stars.
 
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grandpahobo | 2 andere besprekingen | Feb 11, 2024 |
A satisfyingly sleazy noir featuring the less-than-upstanding Tom Cavanaugh who catches his boss committing adultery in the office with a comely file clerk and parlays that into a cushy promotion. When boss starts seeming a little too in love with his mistress, Tom is concerned that he might leave his wife which would put Tom's sweet new job in jeopardy. His boss is only in charge by virtue of his marriage to the sexy and rich Helen Mathews who inherited the company from her father, so Tom works a double-cross by telling her about the affair. She has him tail the unfaithful husband and after Tom catches him buying a gun and some rope and weights under a fake name, Helen decides to get revenge on her husband for wanting to kill her to get her out of the way while still keeping her money and his job. She seduces Tom and offers him her body and her hand in marriage (and her money) if he kills her husband first AND lets her watch. That already sounds pretty complicated, but it gets even more so with a double twist that I was able to satisfyingly spot just before it happened.

Deming is a pro at the pulp game, so this tight and well-written narrative is not a surprise. What is a surprise is the relatively progressive (for an early 1960s pulp novel) attitude towards female sexuality and the concept of consent. That is balanced out, however with a solid "women like men to dominate the relationship" philosophy, so this isn't exactly a book for modern sensitivities. This one also holds its own with The Thin Man in terms of cocktails consumed per character.

Bonus: Deming also has a weird habit of very specifically describing women's dresses (a street dress, a semi-formal, a sheer sundress with a peter pan collar, etc.) -- maybe everyone paid more attention to that in the early 60s?
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kristykay22 | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 22, 2020 |
A TV star is found stabbed with an ice pick. The reporter who finds him gets involved in seeking out why he died-- was it the boss, the girlfriend, suicide over the lost job?
Interesting but predictable.
 
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LindaLeeJacobs | Feb 15, 2020 |
Interesting stories and three beginnings of novels. Makes me want to read more. Mostly from Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazine.
 
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LindaLeeJacobs | Feb 15, 2020 |

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Statistieken

Werken
37
Ook door
23
Leden
330
Populariteit
#71,937
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
10
ISBNs
88
Talen
3

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