Thursday, June 07, 2012

The mystery pulp past of Ray Bradbury.

The versatile Ray Bradbury, who died Tuesday at age 91, wrote some mystery stories early in his career. These include the following:

• The Candy Skull (1948; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984)
• Dead Men Rise Up Never (1945; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984)
• Half-Pint Homicide (1944; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984)
• I'm Not So Dumb! (1945; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984)
• It Burns Me Up! (1944; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984)
• Killer, Come Back to Me (1944; Molle Mystery Theater adaptation starring Richard Widmark, 1946)
• The Long Way Home (1945; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984)
• The Small Assassin (1946; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984; TV episode, 1988; film, 2007)
• Wake for the Living (1947; rpt. A Memory of Murder, 1984)

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