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David Goodis (1917-1967) was an American noir fiction writer. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis studied at Indiana University for a year before transferring to Temple University, where he graduated in 1938 with a journalism degree. Hile working at an advertising agency, he started writing his first novel, Retreat from Oblivion. After it was published by Dutton in 1939, Goodis moved to New York City, where he wrote under several pseudonyms for pulp magazines, including Dime Mystery, Horror Stories, Terror Tales and Western Tales, sometimes churning out 10,000 words a day. Ver a five-and-a-half-year period, he produced five million words for the pulp magazines.

David Goodis (1917-1967) was an American noir fiction writer. After it was published by Dutton in 1939, Goodis moved to New York City, where he wrote under several pseudonyms for pulp magazines, including Dime Mystery, Horror Stories, Terror Tales and Western Tales, sometimes churning out 10,000 words a day. Born in Philadelphia, Goodis studied at Indiana University for a year before transferring to Temple University, where he graduated in 1938 with a journalism degree. While working at an advertising agency, he started writing his first novel, Retreat from Oblivion.

Nightfall is a tour de force of paranoia and criminal greed, by the writer who turned the crime novel into bitter poetry Jim Vanning has an identity problem s he an innocent artist who just happens to have some very dangerous people interested in him? Or is he a killer on the lam from his last murder, with a satchel worth over $300,000 in tow.

Elentlessly focused and as fast-moving as a getaway car, Nightfall may be David Goodis's most accomplished novel It is a fiendishly constructed maze, filled with unpredictable pitfalls and human predators whose authenticity only makes them more terrifying ith a new introduction by Bill Pronzini and a long bonus short story, The Blue Sweetheart Bound in cloth and limited to 300 numbered copies, each one is signed by Bill Pronzini.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Bill Pronzini.
• Introduction by Bill Pronzini.
• Includes long short story, The Blue Sweetheart.
• Head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• Nightfall. Centipede Press page for Nightfall
• David Goodis (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for David Goodis