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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aLeinster, Murray,
_d1896-1975
245 1 0 _aDames
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the August 10, 1939 issue of Short Stories magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-03-31
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _a"Dames by Murray Leinster" is a short story most likely written during the early 20th century. The book is a work of crime fiction with a touch of drama, set against a foggy and remote maritime backdrop. The story’s atmosphere and dialogue reflect the style and social sentiments characteristic of pulp magazines from that time. At its heart, the story focuses on the complicated relationships and desperate circumstances surrounding a fugitive, a resilient young woman, and a tough local man. The story follows a man who narrowly escapes drowning after leaping from a steamer while being transported as a prisoner. Rescued by a resourceful young woman, he becomes entangled in her own troubles—the looming presence of Butch Traynor, a notorious local figure who seeks to force the woman into marriage. As tensions rise in the fog-bound isolation of her family’s island, the three characters converge in a conflict fueled by fear, desperation, and twisted affections. The man from the water is revealed not as a federal agent, as he first claims, but as a wanted criminal. In the end, the woman and Butch reconcile, leaving the fugitive to continue his escape alone, hardened and disillusioned, encapsulated by his final, contemptuous utterance: "Dames!" (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: Short Stories, Inc., 1939
653 _aShort stories
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aFugitives from justice -- Fiction
653 _aInside Passage -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the August 10, 1939 issue of Short Stories magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/short-stories-august-10th-1939
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75758
999 _c116483
_d116483