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David Goodis (1917-1967) was a Philadelphia-born pulp expressionist who brought jazz style and hallucinatory intensity to his spare, passionate, uncompromising novels of mean streets and doomed protagonists: an innocent man railroaded for his wife's murder (Dark Passage), a famous crooner scarred by violence and descending into dereliction (Street of No Return), a petty criminal derailed by irresistible passion (The Burglar). Long a cult figure, whose works have been adapted for the screen by directors including François Truffaut, Delmer Daves, and Samuel Fuller, Goodis is a unique figure in the pantheon of American crime writing.
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