About Cold War Hot Lead
San Francisco, 1947. The War is over. Sgt. Alexander Blade, former kiddie heartthrob of the silent screen, returns to San Francisco to start life anew as a private investigator.
He rents an office near Chinatown and tries to make sense of crazy, post-war San Francisco. He’s got a new client, a real oddball with a husband who’s gone missing. But when Blade’s former Hollywood cameraman turns up in his office as dead as fried oysters (with cash retainer in hand), Blade is drawn into a series of bizarre deaths of former silent film child actors. The cops call them accidental deaths, but Blade suspects murder. To find the serial killer behind the mystery, Blade must revisit a time when Hollywood knew him as Buster Blade, Wonder Boy of the Westerns.
While tracking down his client’s missing husband, Blade finds himself in the ruins of an abandoned movie studio, where he discovers, too late, that he’s been cast in one final scene that ends in murder.
Cold War, Hot Lead is the first Mace Palmer novel featuring Alexander “Buster” Blade, Frisco Detective. He is part of the pulp magazine, noir era of the 1940s, where modern sensibilities barely exist.
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Author Bio:
Mace Palmer's debut novel, Cold War Hot Lead is the first in a series of detective stories featuring Alexander "Buster" Blade, the Frisco Detective. Palmer came from a blue collar background in Stockton, California, having worked as a filling station operator, a professional gambler, and a longshoreman. He was a self-described pulp fiction writer, influenced by the likes of Mickey Spillane, Howard Browne, and Robert Leslie Bellem. He was also a big fan of science fiction writers L Ron Hubbard and Richard S Shaver.
Palmer died in 1964 at the age of 53. His unpublished book manuscripts are in the process of being published by You Dirty Rat Books. Palmer has a Facebook fan page called Frisco Detective. There you can find photos and other memorabilia about the author and the early days of San Francisco.