Pulpeteers

"Want you to meet the last three Pulpeteers," he said when I got to him.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

But I kept thinking it had to be one of the Pulpeteers.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

"Are you thinking it might be one of the Pulpeteers who broke into their room tonight?"

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

But this was a game you could play with Ivan Wade and the other Pulpeteers as well.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

And I told them my speculations on Meeker: his discovery that he'd been cheated, the festering grudge, the invitation to the pulp convention and the chance to confront Colodny after all those years, and his half-cracked scheme to send out copies of the novelette, along with bogus extortion letters, in an effort to find out which of the Pulpeteers had been Colodny's accomplice in the plagiarism.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

"I talked to the rest of the Pulpeteers, too," Dancer said.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

"Why was Colodny allowed in the Pulpeteers," I asked, "if he was suspected of crooked dealings?"

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

Most of the Pulpeteers were inclined to shrug the whole thing off as the work of a crank, but at the same time they were curious and maybe just a little uneasy.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

Cybil said, "Do you think one of the other Pulpeteers killed Frank?"

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

He did it once, with this love-pulp writer he was bedding back in the forties, right in front of everybody at a Pulpeteers 'meeting.

Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981