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Pulp Fiction

Set-up for Scandal

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:

'Gossip monger Louis Renner tried to muscle-in on a mobster's racket and finished up in the river wired to a cement post.

'To get the story, all I had to do was find out who bumped Louis - and why! Renner had an assistant, beautiful brunette, Zaru Darvi. She led me to Art Thorsten, racketeering nightclub owner.Thorsten had varied interests, the more fascinating of them being mysterious TV performer Carmel Burton.

'Then I was helped by Yvette Jarman, a blonde with a way of showing hospitality that's older than time - and talking of time, I had very little left when they trapped me in that pine forest on the coast . . .'