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Pulp Fiction

The Dames in his Death

WH 'Bill' Williams writing as Marc Brody

1956


'A Crime Reporter's Inside Story' title features the first person adventures of crime reporter 'Marc Brody'.

Published by Sydney-based Horwitz Publications between 1955 and 1960, the slightly risqué stories were written by WH 'Bill' Williams, an Australian journalist and editor for The Truth newspaper, who also wrote war novels under his real name.

Williams wrote over 80 hard-hitting tales with formulaic plots and salacious dialogue during the golden age of Australian pulp fiction, with reprints continuing into the 1960s.

As this excerpt from the back cover blurb reads:

'Exotic dancer Sarita Balan was found drowned in the bath in the luxury apartment of wealthy playboy Lester Bendrick, and three questions were raised: Accident? Suicide? Or murder?

'It soon became obvious that Sarita had been murdered - but behind her death was a strange pattern of behaviour. Before I learned the truth of it, one man also learned that not only did he have women in his life - but in his death, too.

'And Brody meanwhile met up with two of the most cold-blooded professional killers I've known - and each had a professional interest in me . . .'