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Pulp Fiction

Maid for the Morgue

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:

'When Donna Bryson - who hadn't always been a maid - began her dynamic career in the world of high-tensioned politics and crime, men died violently and the lives of others hung by a thread . . .

'But Donna hadn't figured that the complications of jealousy, passion and greed would book her a seat on a one-way ride to the morgue.

'And dames? Rina Elkton, who was everything a guy wanted in a dame if he liked it on a grand scale . . . Rina smoked cigars, loved champagne and every day was her birthday . . .'