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John K. Butler. Writer: Headline Hunters. One of the most prolific writers of B-pictures, California native John K. Butler also pulled double duty as a pulp fiction writer.
- Writer
- March 24, 1908
- John K. Butler
- September 18, 1964
John George Butler (born 16 May 1937) is a British author, YouTuber and retired farmer [1] living in Derbyshire. [2] A graduate of the University of Nottingham, [3] Butler is known for having written several books describing his experiences with meditation and spirituality gained through international travel and study, [4] and has accumulated over 200 thousand subscribers on his YouTube [5] channel where he discusses a wide array of subjects that primarily centre around religion and ...
- Hacker's Holiday
- The Saint in Silver
- The Killer Was A Gentleman
- The Hearse from Red Owl
- Other Steve Midnight Tales
- Butler and Hard-Boiled Fiction
- Butler and Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Tricky Enright
- Sandy Taylor
This is the only Steve Midnight tale to be set in Venice. Butlerrarely reused settings in his Midnight tales. He seemed to wanteach new story to offer the reader a fresh setting, somethingnew they hadn't read about before. Venice does not disappear fromthe world of Butler's stories, however. We are always readingin later tales that Steve's cab is p...
The sheer honesty of Butler's hero Steve Midnight is refreshing, too. He comes across as a 100% good guy, not at all cynical or vicious. Butler's portrait of a corrupt high life out of whichthe mystery emerges is also well done. There is a note of classconsciousness in the story, and a Depression mood: it pits a honestbut poor working man against a...
It is the longest of the stories: this is in part because Butlerputs so much vivid descriptive detail into the work. The story celebrates male bonding: through helping the murder suspect inthe tale, Steve finds his ideal friend. Like Captain Hollister,this man is somewhat older than Steve, a man who can serve asa father figure. He has many outstand...
Steve is a taxi driver for the "Red Owl" cab company, hence thename of the story. One section involves detection based on strangereports from Steve's cab meter; these are in the mystery storytradition of plots based on technical information on a specializedsubject. The story also brings in some odd sidelights on the taxibusiness of its era. The sto...
At the Stroke of Midnight reprints the tales photographicallyfrom the pages of Dime Detective, illustrations, ads andall. In general, I like the cover paintings of the old mysterypulps, but not the interior illustrations. These Midnight talesrun true to form: the cover by Malvin Singer is a lot better theopening black and white pictures to each tal...
However, there are some important differences betweenButler and hard-boiled writers. There are plenty of crooked characters,but they tend to be more racketeers and big time swindlers, thanthe mobsters that flow through so much hard-boiled fiction. Theswindles tend to be money oriented rackets, which deceive ordinarypeople and separate them from the...
Butler's closest analogue is to the stories of Mary Roberts Rinehart."The Saint in Silver" especially reminded me of her"The Buckled Bag" (1914). The unraveling of a grippingmystery plot; the suspense events at night; a vaguely medicalbackground; and elaborate locations loaded with sexual symbolismall seem in the Rinehart tradition. Even Midnight's...
Golden Age mysteries often created a closed circle of suspects:everyone present at a remote country mansion, for instance. Bycontrast, Butler's tales tend to happen in Los Angeles, and initially,anyone in that city can be regarded as a potential suspect. Butler'sdetectives have to isolate and track down people who might beinvolved in a case, out of...
The mainstream novelist John Steinbeck would create CanneryRow (1945), which like "Death on the Hook" is alsoa look at a California community dominated by fishermen and canneries.Its atmosphere is a bit closer to that of Butler's story, thanare the Speed Saunders stories. "Death on the Hook"will also anticipate elements of the finale of the film Te...
Oct 18, 2022 · Author JOHN K. BUTLER is best-known, at least in our little neck of the woods, for the numerous stories he pounded out for such pulps as Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly, Double Detective and especially Dime Detective. A native Californian, Butler was born in Auburn, up near San Francisco.
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Oct 1, 1998 · John K. Butler. 3.60. 5 ratings2 reviews. In the 1930s and '40s, he wrote about the otherworldly landscape of Southern California with a tough elegance themes bordered on poetry, driving his tarnished but noble knight through a neon-lit neverland.
Dec 21, 2023 · FLINT, Michigan — John K. Butler has been elected to the board of trustees of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, effective Jan. 1, 2024. A great-grandson of the institution’s founder, C.S. Mott, Butler will be the fifth family member currently serving on the board, which totals 14 active members and three trustees emeriti.
