Deadlier Than the Male
By James Gunn.
Introduced by Curtis
Evans.
Filmed as Born to
Kill, aka Lady of Deceit and Deadlier
Than the Male (1947), directed by Robert Wise.
Published by Stark House Press.
Film Noir Classics, 7.
First published 1942.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 979-8886010824
ASIN: B0CW22PDN7
Description:
“Deadlier Than the Male is truly one of the strangest of
all American crime novels. In fact it’s one of the strangest of all American
novels… It is in no way a pleasant read but it is fascinating in a bizarre,
morbid and very unsettling way. Gunn’s style is as extreme and as offbeat as
his plotting. This is psychological noir at its darkest.” – Vintage Pop
Fictions.
DEADLIER THAN THE MALE.
Helen is in Reno for her second divorce and staying with
Mrs. Krantz and her daughter Rachel at their boarding house. Mrs. Krantz’s
drinking companion, Laura Pollicker, lives next door. That night she is
murdered, and Helen discovers the body—and wastes no time in returning to the
San Francisco house she shares with his sister Georgia. How could she know that
the very man who meets and marries her sister only days later is the same man
who had slit Mrs. Pollicker’s throat.
Sam Wild is a powerful man, tall, muscular, with
very little control over his emotions. His friend Mart watches out for him, but
Sam sometimes just can’t help himself—he has to kill. Now he’s got a rich wife
with an attractive sister, and he’s just biding his time until he can take over
Georgia’s money and get rid of her, too. But that’s when Helen steps in with
some plans of her own.
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