day keene

2 min read 2021-12-16 19:00:00

THE KID I KILLED LAST NIGHT by Day Keene (& David Laurence Wilson)

This is Day Keene’s book. It contains thirteen of his stories, all well told and rewarding. But the real star of the show is the Introduction,

1 min read 2021-05-04 17:00:00

Before he was a successful paperback crime novelist, Day Keene (real name: Gunnard Hjertstedt) was a successful author of short stories in the pulps.

2 min read 2021-03-05 18:00:00

Many authors thrived off of the stand-alone mid-20th century paperback novels, but it was the creation of a recurring or series character that

2 min read 2021-02-11 18:00:00

Day Keene (real name Gunard Hjerstedt) cut his teeth on short-stories and pulp writing in the 1930s and 1940s. Like so many pulpsters, Keene

2 min read 2020-04-20 01:00:00

Beginning in 1949, Day Keene (real name Gunard Hjertstedt) wrote over 50 novels. Just four years before his 1969 death, his heist novel Carnival of

2 min read 2020-03-28 17:00:00

Along with Harry Whittington, Gil Brewer and John D. MacDonald, Day Keene (real name Gunnard R. Hjerstedt) presented many of his crime-noir novels in

2 min read 2020-01-31 18:00:00

Like his contemporaries in Harry Whittington, Gil Brewer and Talmage Powell, Day Keene (real name Gunnard R. Hjertstedt) was a successful Florida

7 min read 2019-11-10 23:58:21

Writers of Science Fiction and Mystery have always shared a common point of origin in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Though Poe is usually thought

3 min read 2019-10-03 17:00:00

Gunnard R. Hjertstedt is better known as the prolific crime-noir author Day Keene. As one of Florida’s Gulf Coast writers, Keene enjoyed the

2 min read 2019-09-04 17:00:00

In 2017, Stark House Press released a three-pack featuring notable Day Keene (real name: Gunard Hjertstedt) literary works - “Sleep with the

2 min read 2019-03-13 17:00:00

Author Day Keene, real name Gunard Hjertstedt (1904 -1969) wrote over 50 novels and is often placed in the top echelon of crime fiction along with