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Title: The Ruby Files
Author: William Maynard, Sean Taylor, Andrew Salmon, Bobby Nash
Narrator: Alex Beckham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-05-18
Publisher: RadioArchives.com
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Gangsters and gun molls
It was the 1930s, and America was locked in the grip of the Great Depression. Gangsters controlled the major cities, while outlaws roamed the rural back country. It was a time of speakeasy gin-joints, tommy-guns, fast cars, and even faster dames. This is the world of New York-based private investigator Rick Ruby, a world he is all too familiar with. From the back alleys of Gotham to the gold laden boulevards of Hollywood, Ruby is the shamus with a nose for trouble and an insatiable appetite for justice. So, if youve got a taste for hot lead and knuckle sandwiches, tug your cuffs, adjust your fedora, and light up a Lucky, a brand new pulp detective is coming your way.
Created by pulp masters, Bobby Nash and Sean Taylor, Rick Ruby echoes the tales of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe while offering up his own brand of two-fisted action. Joined by fellow pulp smiths Andrew Salmon and William Patrick Maynard, these modern scribes of purple prose present a quartet of tales to delight any true lover of private eye fiction.
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Members Reviews:
Pulp Fiction and "Film Noir."
The blurb above the title reads, "Every story a gem!" Man, they weren't kidding!
Created by writers Bobby Nash and Sean Taylor, The Ruby Files, starring Rick Ruby, Private Eye, adheres and pays tribute to guys like Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Peter Gunn, and Richard Diamond. But they've set Ruby apart from the others by giving him more of a wicked sense of humor (which is something I find makes a character that much more real), easing back on the cynicism, making him a little more nasty when it comes to the rough stuff, and making him a shade more fallible: he doesn't always think before he acts, and he sometimes makes the wrong decision. I like that about him. Oh, and unusual for a series set in the 1930s, Rick is romantically involved with Evelyn Johnson, a black nightclub singer. Four novellas by four different writers comprise this excellent volume, and I'll give you a brief summary on each of them.
The most hard-boiled of the lot is Andrew Salmon's excellent tale, Wounds, the first story. It's the perfect introduction to Rick Ruby and his film noir world. Here he investigates the murder of a cop, who may or may not be dirty. Then there's a connection between the distraught father of the murdered policeman and Rick's own father, who died in WWI, on Christmas Eve, 1917. Besides working hard and endangering his life to solve this cop's death and bring the murderer(s) down, Rick has to deal with a very emotional father, as well as his own emotions. This adds weight and a backstory to Ruby and sets us up for the rest of the stories.
One of the more intricately-plotted of the four stories is The Case of the Wayward Brother, by co-creator Bobby Nash. Ruby is hired by a gorgeous gal, Marilyn Carlyle to help find her wayward brother, Jonathan. Jonny boy is somewhat of a gambling addict, and is in hock to some very nasty wise guys for some big dough. Well, things don't turn out to be so easy for Rick, and the tale soon heats up when the search for the missing brother turns ugly. And just when you think you know where this is going -- bang! The twists and turns hit you like a shot out of a dark alley.
