The Willie Klump Mystery Megapack / Детектив Вилли Кламп
Название: The Willie Klump Mystery Megapack / Детектив Вилли Кламп Автор: Archibald, Joe / Арчибальд, Джо Год выпуска: 2017 Издательство: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 978-1-4794280-8-3 Формат: EPUB Качество: eBook Язык: английский
Описание: Карьера персонажа "Вилли Кламп" в бульварных журналах началась в 1938 году и продолжалась в более чем 60 рассказах на протяжении 21 года. Вилли - неудачник, но в качестве частного детектива он умудряется успешно заканчивать свои дела (обычно с помощью друзей, в особенности своей секретарши Герти Маджетт, которая чаще всего и спасает ситуацию). Жанр, в котором написаны рассказы можно охарактеризовать, как "комический крутой детектив". Автор, Джо Арчибальд (1898-1986) опубликовал более 900 рассказов в журналах, от "палп" и до "глянцевых". Много его рассказов есть в релизе https://booktracker.org/viewtopic.php?t=77077, но там - pdf, а этот сборник - epub, вполне подходящий для чтения на e-ink читалке.
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MURDER IN THE WORST DEGREE
William J. Klump, president of The Hawkeye Detective Agency, sat at his desk in his abbreviated office and busied himself with some plain and fancy doodling. Crime that required the services of a private gumshoe was not exactly rampant and had not been for several weeks and Willie was as far down in the mouth as was Jonah that time in relation to the whale. Willie was not the detective the scenario writers dote on portraying. His feet were large enough, but not flat, and one side of his mouth was not pulled out of shape by talking out of it exclusively or stuffing it continually with fat stogies. Willie’s face was such as to spur criminal characters to lift bigger things. There was a sound at the door and Willie was about to rush for the closet and hide in same, having been threatened by bill collectors for three days, when he noticed that two letters had been slid under his door. “It is maybe clients at last,” Willie exclaimed and snatched at the mail eagerly, He made himself comfortable and tore open the first epistle. It said: ARE YOU A DOODLER? ...
