by Gil Brewer · University Press of Florida · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780813044064
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«Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories» is Gil Brewer's collection of noir short stories (University Press of Florida, paperback, 272 pages, in English).
The book collects 25 short stories by Gil Brewer published in pulp magazines of the 1950s. They are tales of crime, desire, and obsession featuring ordinary, desperate characters who, in the Florida heat, end up succumbing to their own weaknesses.
First collection of Gil Brewer's short fiction, edited by David Rachels and published by University Press of Florida in 2012.
A title for fans of crime fiction, hard-boiled, and American pulp, especially for followers of Gil Brewer.
Gilbert John "Gil" Brewer was an American writer of crime novels and short stories. Born on November 20, 1922, in Canandaigua, New York, he was the son of Gilbert Thomas Brewer and Ruth Wilhelmina Olschewske. Brewer's father was a writer who also published under the name Gil Brewer, specializing in air adventure stories. The older Brewer is most often remembered for having written "Gorilla of the Gas Bags," the cover story for the rare June 1929 issue of Zeppelin Stories.
