Damon Runyon

• Jan-2024
• / General Fiction

Tales from the world of gamblers and small-time crooks who inhabited the world of the speakeasies during Prohibition. The Prohibition era comes alive in these comic tales featuring dames (dolls, babes, broads, or ever-loving wives) and guys (players,...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction

Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan on October 4th, 1880, in Manhattan, Kansas. When Runyon was two his father was forced to sell his newspaper, and the family moved further west, eventually settling in Pueblo, Colorado in 1887, where Runyon sp...

• Oct-2010
• / General Fiction

• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction

Alfred Damon Runyon (1880â€"1946) was an American newspaperman and short story writer best known for his stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyo...

• Mar-2008
• / General Fiction

From Dave the Dude to Al Capone: a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up in the West, moved to New York City, and became one of the leading voices of American popular culture. From sports writing to short fiction, t...

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction

Full of humorous stories about gangsters, bootleggers, gamblers, and their women inhabiting New York's Broadway. A world of speakeasies and dancing girls where a gambler or bootlegger is perfectly normal and respectable in every way. Those familiar w...

• Dec-2000
• / General Fiction

• Oct-1999
• / General Fiction

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

• Oct-1993
• / General Fiction

• Nov-1992
• / General Fiction

• Sep-1991
• / Suspense

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction

• Sep-1981
• / General Fiction

• Jan-1978
• / Literary

• 1961
• / Mystery

When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...

• Jun-1934
• / General Fiction

• / Mystery

Alfred Damon Runyan (re-christened Runyon through a printer's error early in his career) was an American journalist and short story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of th...