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Greetings! Those of you who follow the VWOP Twitter account have probably heard of Paperback Warrior. Paperback Warrior, as you can tell by the above image, is a website devoted to reviewing hard-boiled crime, mystery, men’s adventure, espionage, and western novels. Like the pulp novelists of yore, Eric and Tom crank ’em […] I’m very excited about this. IDW Publishing has just announced Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition: Last Call. For those of you not familiar with the first Martini Edition, it was released in 2011 and was a massive, and I mean massive slipcased volume containing the first two of Darwyn Cooke’s already-classic comic book […] Rififi (Portugal) 19?? Title translation: Hunter of Men
Title translation: The Statuette Levi Stahl, as many of you know, is the man responsible for getting the Parker and Grofield novels back into print at the University of Chicago Press, as well as the brains behind the The Getaway Car, an anthology of Donald Westlake’s nonfiction writings. This past week, he appeared on the White Rocket Podcast […] Rififi (Portugal) (19??) Title translation: The Cake. VWOP Portuguese-language correspondent Carlos explains: “Bolo” is also used in Portuguese as slang for the pile of money accumulated in the middle of the table in a card game (the betting money). The equivalent of the “pot” in poker games. Cover text translation: “Twelve assault an […] Rififi (Portugal) (19??) Title translation: The Gang I can’t read the text well enough to run it through Google Translate. Rififi (Brazil) (19??) Title translation: The Case of the Black Diamonds The cover text is a translation of the “Here’s Parker!” blurb from the Gold Medal first edition. A previous version of this post mistakenly referred to this edition as being from […] Publisher unknown (Brazil) (????) (English: Point Blank) Translation of cover text: Top: “Special Mystery Edition” / Subtitle: “The barbarous vengeance of a betrayed and robbed man!” This Brazilian cover is courtesy of reader Cesar. Over the coming days, I’ll be rolling out a number of Portuguese-language covers that he clued me in to. […] We are back! As longtime readers know, the site has been neglected many times in the nearly two decades it has existed in some form or other. This past year-and-change is the first time it has vanished entirely. For you old schoolers who were wondering, here is what happened. I was in one […] |
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