The Lady Kills [Paperback]

Bruno Fischer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2005

Old Cleave should have known better than to use a whip. But no man ever knew what Beth would do. Her father suspected that she enjoyed killing. Her husband learned the truth too late. And I saw it happen. Saw her and wanted her, and understood least of all Another of Fischer's later titles, first published in 1951. The Lady Kills is spread out across years, with a newspaperman, a gambler, a young boy, the woman they all loved, and that oh-so-special way she treats her lovers. Special, and deadly.

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: blackmask.com; First Edition edition (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596541725
• ISBN-13: 978-1596541726
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,994,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Decent noir undermined by awful publisher, January 19, 2012

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Baron Von Cool - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lady Kills (Paperback)

Back in the 50s, Bruno Fischer (aka Russell Gray) turned out some fun femme fatale stories like So Wicked My Love and House of Flesh. The Lady Kills is a decent read, but not nearly as good or erotic as the other books I mentioned. The plot: A small town reporter falls for the publisher's daughter who turns out to be not as sweet as he thought. In fact, she makes a bad habit of murdering men. And she's tied up with the local crime syndicate the reporter is trying to expose. How long will he let his love blind him to the awful truth?

What drives me crazy is how craptastic publisher Blackmask is at reprinting these lost noir novels. The formatting is squished so tight that there are maybe one or two spaces indented to designate a new paragraph, and different characters' dialogue will get smashed into the same paragraph, so you have to guess who is talking. There are also at least one to a half-dozen typos per page in addition to the formatting errors. At one point, I caught three typos in the same sentence! Blackmask doesn't care about anything but cramming these books into as few pages as possible with zero attention to detail, right down to the tiny JPG cover art. All of their books are like this, more or less, some to the point of being unreadable (this one isn't unreadable, but it is loaded with errors). Don't ever buy a Blackmask edition of anything unless you can't find it anywhere else or for a decent price.