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| Peter Rabe was born in Germany as Peter Rabinowitsch in 1921, immigrating to the U.S. with his brother in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He enrolled at Ohio State University and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Western Reserve in Cleveland. Married, he began his writing career by turning in a humorous story about the birth of his first son. Soon after, he began submitting hardboiled stories to Gold Medal where he found an enthusiastic editor and a ready market. | After three divorces, health problems and the death of the paperback original, Rabe eventually quit writing and took up teaching psychology at California Polytechnic State University in the late 60’s. He died in 1990 at his home in Atascadero, California. |
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| The Box / Journey Into Terror 0-9667848-8-x $19.95 Two hardboiled thrillers from the late 50’s and early 60’s—includes a biography by George Tuttle and an afterward by Donald E. Westlake. |
Murder Me for Nickels / Benny Muscles In 0-9749438-4-3 $19.95 “Noir addicts looking for a fix of the good stuff will find it here.”Keir Graff, Booklist |
Blood on the Desert / A House in Naples 1-933586-00-1 $19.95 Espionage in North Africa and a poignant thriller about two smugglers and the woman who comes between them. “Crime fiction just didn’t get any better.”Ed Gorman |
My Lovely Executioner / Agreement to Kill 1-933586-11-7 $19.95 Coming Fall 2006, two more excellent novels. Bill Pronzini has this to say about Rabe: "He had few peers among noir writers of the 50's and 60's; he has few peers today." |
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Anatomy of a Killer / A Shroud for Jesso 1-933586-22-2 $14.95 Two gangster noirs from one of the most important writers of the paperback original era. Donald Westlake described Anatomy of a Killer "as cold and clean as a knife...a terrific book." |
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The Silent Wall / The Return of Marvin Palaver 1-933586-32-x $19.95 Two previously unpublished novels by one of the top noir authors of the 1950's and 60's-- a tense drama of Mafia revenge, and a crazy con from beyond the grave. "With Rabe, you never know how the plot is going to unfold." Michael Scott Cain, Rambles WINTER 2010/11 |
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