oAfterword on the history of pulp paperbacksoDigitized from rare pulp editionWhat is this Mystery about? Murder and malevolent mischief in Mexico so baffling it has even the F.B.I running around in circles . A Body clubbed, slashed, and tossed to the fishes for no apparent reason. A peculiar farewell note which only adds to the mystery of the fear in the eyes of its writer. A puzzling and elaborate survey of an unexplored area. Eight trucks where no trucks should be. Two mighty expensive roads from nowhere to nowhere. A drainage project as fantastic as it is phony. A con!stantly used camera which has been innocent of any film for years. A deserted and fast-sinking ship upon which four innocent fugitives are trapped. A wild ride on a tractor. A carefully calculated seduction before a horrified audience. Piracy on a gigantic scale. A breathless series of adventures in Hell's back yard.Wouldn't you like to know... why the man who has every right to be in his office is scared speechless when found there? Why death must be the penalty for anyone penetrating the secret of the Melendez papers? What P.U.N has to do with murder? Why Bert Carter's hobby seems to be and "taking pictures and " with an unloaded camera? What are the Seven Points of the puzzle? Why the crew laughed at every mention of the ship's sailing? What is the true meaning of the notation Salinas Vengeance? You will learn the answers as you thrill to the adventure, romance, excitement, and suspense which befall Ken Marsh as he tracks murder and dark villainy through a region of Mexico known as Hell's Back Yard.About Vintage Paperback Pulp A new revolution was underway at the start of the 1940s in America - a paperback revolution that would change the way publishers would produce and distribute books and the reading public would consume them. In 1939 a new publishing company - Pocket Books - stormed onto the scene with the publication of its first paperbound book. Unlike hardback books, these pulp paperbacks were inexpensive and readily available everywhere. The American public could not get enough of them.During the 1940s, mysteries and romances were the hot sellers. In the early 1950s, new pulp fiction subgenres emerged - science fiction, westerns, gay and u0026 lesbian fiction, juvenile delinquent and "sleaze", for instance - that would tantalize readers with gritty, realistic and lurid stories never seen before. Publishers soon came to realize that sex sells. In a competitive frenzy for readers, they turned from straightforward and "tasteful and " cover images to alluring covers that frequently featured a sexy woman in some form of undress, along with a suggestive tag line that promised stories of sex and violence within the covers. To this day, the pulp cover art of these vintage paperback books is just as sought after as the books themselves were sixty years ago.We are excited to make these wonderful pulp fiction stories available in ebook format to new generations of readers, as a new revolution - the ebook revolution - is in full swing. We hope you will enjoy this nostalgic look back at a period in American history when dames were dangerous, tough-guys were deadly and dolls were downright delicious.