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Boston Blackie: A Classic Crime Novel of a Gentleman Thief, Safecracker, and Rogue Hero

Boston Blackie: A Classic Crime Novel of a Gentleman Thief, Safecracker, and Rogue Hero


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Boston Blackie introduces one of early American crime fiction's great gentleman thieves: a safecracker, jewel thief, fugitive, and rogue with his own code of honour. Blackie lives outside the law, but he is not merely a criminal appetite in motion. He is clever, charming, dangerous, loyal to the helpless, ruthless toward enemies, and always one step away from prison, betrayal, or another impossible escape. Jack Boyle's stories helped create a figure who would later become familiar through films, radio, and popular culture: the reformed or semi-reformed criminal hero whose knowledge of the underworld makes him more effective than respectable society's own guardians.

First appearing in magazine stories in 1914, Boston Blackie was later shaped into the 1919 book Boston Blackie, a linked narrative drawn from Boyle's magazine fiction. The character's earliest stories appeared in The American Magazine, with later stories in Red Book, and his screen career began as early as 1918. For Black Curtain, the appeal is obvious: this is not cosy detection, but early American crime fiction built around theft, pursuit, prison shadows, underworld loyalty, social hypocrisy, and the dangerous glamour of a criminal who knows the rules better than the people paid to enforce them. For readers of classic crime, gentleman-thief fiction, early hardboiled precursors, pulp crime, and rogue-hero stories, Boston Blackie is a key rediscovery.



About the Author :
Jack Boyle (1881-1928) was an American writer and former convict best known for creating Boston Blackie, the gentleman thief and underworld rogue who became one of the durable figures of early twentieth-century American crime fiction. Boyle wrote the earliest Boston Blackie stories under the pen name "No. 6606," a reference to his prison experience, and the character's original magazine appearances began in The American Magazine in 1914 before continuing in other periodicals. His knowledge of prison life, criminal codes, and the social border between respectability and the underworld gave the Blackie stories a sharper edge than ordinary light mystery fiction.Although Boyle's literary output was limited, Boston Blackie had a long afterlife in American popular culture, moving from magazines and book form into silent films, later motion pictures, radio, and television. The character's appeal lies in contradiction: thief and hero, criminal and moralist, fugitive and protector, a man who breaks the law yet often seems more honourable than those who hide behind it. For readers of classic crime fiction, pulp-era storytelling, gentleman-thief fiction, early American mystery, and the roots of noir and hardboiled crime, Boyle's Boston Blackie remains an important and entertaining source text.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781627551847
  • Publisher: Black Curtain Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Black Curtain Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 212
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 367 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1627551840
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jun 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Classic Crime Novel of a Gentleman Thief, Safecracker, and Rogue Hero
  • Width: 152 mm


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