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Lost Bloch Crimes (Crimes and Punishments)

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...someone who has the wit to appreciate Bloch, and enough knowledge to know Bloch knew what he was doing, but not enough wit or knowledge to realize that DIME MYSTERY was one of the more innovative and sophisticated of crime-fiction magazines (after its first issues, which were devoted to what has been referred to since as "shudder pulp"--essentially, perverse pseudo-horror stories), one of the magazines that picked up the gauntlet from BLACK MASK in the 1930s (if not quite as impressively as its stablemate DIME DETECTIVE did).

Meanwhile, this book, gathering material from places as diverse as a READER'S DIGEST volume (published by their "condensed books" arm, but not an example of that approach, but an amusingly odd anthology of true-crime and supposedly-true paranormal accounts by writers better known for their good to excellent fiction-writing) and the pulps in question, is eminently worth having even without the supplementary materials by "Elly" Bloch and Douglas Winter, and it's a pity it was offered in such a limited edition.