Compliments of the Domino Lady

Compliments of the Domino Lady
Author: Lars Anderson (creator of Domino Lady.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Women heroes
ISBN: 9780971224667

The original femme fatale! Six stories featuring the sexy masked manhunter -- prowling the soundstages and penthouses of 1936 Hollywood. A beautiful young woman falling in and out of love, scarred by personal tragedy, who vows to dismantle a crooked political machine -- one corrupt official and ruthless gangster at a time.Steranko provides a new cover, but its the "title page dramatizations" that electrify this collection. Steranko revives the Domino Lady with the beauty and style in which she was created by pulp artist Norman Saunders. Each double-page illustration introduces a story with art deco magic and astract mystery. Describing the illustrations can't do them justice -- but Steranko certainly does justice to the lovely Ellen Patrick, alias the siren of justice, Domino Lady.Stories by Lars Anderson, illustrations by Steranko. Six stories, Steranko cover and title pages, original pulp illustrations, afterward "Who Was Lars Anderson?" by Will Murray.

Domino Lady

Domino Lady
Author: Various
Publisher: Moonstone Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781933076393

(E) Lori Gentile Los Angeles, the 1930's. The city of angels. Just beneath the surface is a city stinking of corruption with criminal bosses and politicians squeezing the life out of the city. Stunned by the murder of her crusading politician father, socialite Ellen Patrick determines to bring her father's killers to justice - at any cost! Donning a distinctive white dress and a black domino mask, she becomes The Domino Lady, one of the sexiest - and most elusive - crime fighters of all time. Nine tales of one of the world's first female masked crime fighters.

The Complete Adventures of the Domino Lady

The Complete Adventures of the Domino Lady
Author: Lars Anderson
Publisher: Altus Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781618273581

"Compliments of the Domino Lady!" In order to avenger the murder of his father, socialite Ellen Patrick donned a domino mask and evening dress and packed a .45. Running for six rare stories in mid-1930s pulp magazines, these stories remain elusive. Now, these are collected in an affordable edition, complemented by an all-new Afterword by pulp historian Tom Johnson.

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593310853

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Domino Lady

Domino Lady
Author: Vanguard Productions
Publisher: Vanguard
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-03-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781887591690

From Indiana Jones to The Shadow, he's visualized more classic fictional icons than any other American artist and now he's added another, in a spectacular volume which incorporates four favorite Steranko themes: pulp fiction, noir mystery, art deco, and beautiful women. A new painted cover showcasing equal parts danger, intrigue, and sex appeal. Each adventure pits the sultry femme fatale against vicious gangsters and secret societies, all of which are captured by evocative Steranko double-page title illustrations. And as a SPECIAL BONUS, he has also authored a new thriller that reveals the sin-tillating secrets of the Domino Lady's lethal origin for the first time ever! She's the quintessential `30s pulp vixen, a masked manhunter in a noir deco world, right out of a Warner Bros. thriller in a handsome format.

The Perfume Companion

The Perfume Companion
Author: Sarah McCartney
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0711242194

'An authoritative guide from two experts who really know their way around scent' – FUNMI FETTO The Perfume Companion is a beautifully illustrated compendium of almost 500 recommended scents, designed to help you pick out your next favourite fragrance. Perfumes have the power to evoke treasured memories, make us feel fabulous and help us express our best self. But with so many out there, how do you choose something new? When the scents in the perfume shop are merging into one aromatic haze, how do you remain focused? And if your favourite scent goes out of stock, how do you replace it? The Perfume Companion is here to help. Sarah McCartney and Samantha Scriven deliver a host of scents for you to try – including bargain finds and luxury treasures, iconic stalwarts and indie newcomers, the lightest florals and the deepest leathers. With insider information about how perfumes are really made, discover hundreds of new fragrances and find the scents to share your own memories with. This is the perfect companion for your scented adventures.

Hell-Heaven

Hell-Heaven
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110191209X

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America. “Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth. An eBook short.

A Low, Dirty Place

A Low, Dirty Place
Author: R. Rebecca Morris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2012
Genre: Anne Arundel County (Md.)
ISBN: 9780970235527

Domino Lady

Domino Lady
Author: Ron Wilber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1995
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

"With a slinky wardrobe of a '30s starlet and the arsenal of a state militia, Domino Lady thrusts her double D's where few crimefighters dare! When a criminal pied piper releases the city's primal nature, daring Domino goes undercover- baring all in the name of the law! A steamy flipside takes Domino's juicy adventures to the jungle"--Cover.