<p>From dust jacket notes: "Tugboat Annie, or Mrs. Terry Brennan to be exact, rules the Pacific coast line with all the ferocity of a submarine chaser. 'Tugboat Annie Brennan!' she fires at the new president of the Deep-Sea Towing and Salvage company, 'That's what the waterfront calls me. And I didn't get the name pushin' toy boats around the bathtub, either!' In the words of her creator, Norman Reilly Raine, a Canadian reporter/film script writer, Air Force pilot Annie '...was large-framed, solidly built, with rugged, almost masculine features, and shrewd, quick, blue eyes, and her movements had an elephantine energy that galvanized everyone with whom she came in contact. When she passed through a room, dust and odd bits of paper danced in her wake. And when she stood...with beetling brows and sturdy legs apart, the feather in her antiquated bonnet nodding raffish defiance, she looked not unlike a blowzy buy exceedingly combative bulldog.' The first Tugboat Annie story appeared in The Saturday Evening Post July 11, 1931. Seventy-four followed. Raine's knowledge of shipping and the sea was encyclopedic; and a part of his genius, a knack he shared with Mark Twain, was in permeating his characters with this knowledge without making them appear pedantic. Annie puts her finger on 'a dog-eared manual...wet(s) her thumb lavishly and turn(s) over to the required page.' Then she cites maritime law. She knows Puget Sound as well as Twain's Mr. Bixby knows the Mississippi. And her specialized knowledge is rounded out with sea-horse sense. She is tough but she is fair. She is smart but strong enough to put her ideas into action. Her fairness and brutal honesty make us rely on her as the central consciousness of the well-plotted stories. The stories are jammed with action, but it is Annie as a character that makes them memorable...."</p>

Tugboat Annie: Great Stories from the Saturday Evening Post

Raine, Norman Reilly

Curtis Publishing Company

Glencannon Meets Tugboat Annie

<p>Two of fiction's most outrageous, conniving and hilarious characters combine in an epic adventure that traverses the length and breadth of Puget Sound. Twice the havoc, twice the laughter. Puget Sound will never be the same again. Includes the original Saturday Evening Post Illustrations.</p>

Literature & Fiction

Gilpatric, Guy

Literary

Literary Licensing, LLC

Glencannon Press

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