Black Black Noir

One is a Lonely Number / Black Wings Has My Angel by Bruce Elliot/Elliot Chaze
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Stark House has reprinted two traditionally hard-to-find, much-sought-after paperback originals in one volume--One is a Lonely Number by Bruce Elliot "(1952) and Black Wings Has Angel (1953) by Elliot Chaze. One is a Lonely Number was originally published by Lion (100) and is nearly impossible to find, but yet doesn't command the same high prices as Black Wings, a Gold Medal (296) original, which usually goes for hundreds of dollars.

If you like your hardboiled crime novels gritty and violent and have never read either of these, I highly recommend plunking down $19.95 for this volume. Black Wings Has My Angel has had a cult following for years, even, as it turns out, in the movie business where it's currently being filmed for a 2013 release.

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Black Wings Has My Angel

The cult classic Black Wings Has My Angel (1953) by Elliot Chaze is now available in an inexpensive hardbound edition from a company called Bruin Books. For those fans of pulp fiction who haven't read it because they've been unwilling to shell out hundreds of dollars for a rare Gold Medal original or limited edition reprint, this book is welcome.

Haven't heard much about it lately, but there is or was a movie of this book in the works, produced by Elijah Wood. If that actuall happens we can probably expect a movie-tie in paperback, which is the only way a big publisher would be interested in this title, since it's in the public domain. Licensing a tie-in from the film producers would give a publisher some exclusivity it wouldn't otherwise have.

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