Detective stories

Wilson Tucker in 1988

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Arthur Wilson “Bob” Tucker was born on November 23, 1914 in Deer Creek, Illinois, USA. Generally he used the name Wilson Tucker for the novels and short fiction published in books and professional magazines but in fanzines he generally used the name Bob Tucker. Occasionally he used other pseudonyms. During his long career he wrote mostly science fiction but also detective, mystery and spy stories. He was also very active in science fiction fandom and conventions.

Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo (Italian edition)

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The novel “Destroying Angel” by Richard Paul Russo was published for the first time in 1992. It’s the first in the Frank Carlucci series.

Louis Tanner left have the police for some time and one of the cases in which he was involved that remained unsolved concerns a serial killer who threw the bodies of his victims in the San Francisco bay with angel wings tattooed on their skin. The murders stopped for unknown reasons for a few years but suddenly restart.

Tanner can’t pretend nothing’s happening and reconnects with Frank Carlucci, a former colleague still in the police. At the time of the first investigation, Tanner was contacted by a criminal who claimed to have information useful to find the serial killer and he was listed as the person to meet to communicate such information. After the the murders restarted, that old trace may be the only one useful to solve the case.

Harlan Ellison in 1986

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Harlan Jay Ellison was born on May 27, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He’s famous as a writer and screenwriter. He wrote many science fiction stories, often winners of Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards, but also detective stories, thrilles and other genres. In 1967, Harlan Ellison was the editor of the famous anthology “Dangerous Visions”, which represents.

Working for television, Harlan Ellison wrote screenplays for several TV shows includining the original “Star Trek” series and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”. He was also the creative consultant for the version of the ’80s of “The Twilight Zone” and later for “Babylon 5”.

Jonathan Lethem at the National Book Critics Circle Awards in 2012

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Jonathan Allen Lethemwas born on February 19, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York. Jonathan Lethem manages to mix various literary genres in a truly unique way. It’s therefore impossible to predict what his next novel will be like. Being surprised is part of the pleasure of reading this author.
In the course of his life, Jonathan Lethem has been married three times: with the artist Shelley Jackson from 1987 to 1997, with Julia Rosenberg from 2000 to 2002 and from 2004 with Amy Barrett, with whom in 2007 he had a son, Everett Barrett Lethem.

Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

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The novel “Gun, with Occasional Music” by Jonathan Lethem was published for the first time in 1994.

Conrad Metcalf finds himself involved in an investigation that is definitely out of the ordinary. The murder of a doctor whose beautiful wife he was shadowing is just the beginning of a case that is becoming more and more complex. As if the use of blends of drugs that affect memory isn’t enough to make the investigation difficult, it seems that nobody wants to find the murderer.