Full Description
Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big, baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train-a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best. Featuring: - Three stories each by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner and Dashiell Hammett. - Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. - A never-before-published Dashiell Hammett story. - Why you should never buy a strange blonde a hamburger - Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective and Frederick Nebel, one of the masters of the form.- 3lbs of Pulp in three lethal installments: The Crimefighters, The Villains, and The Dames and three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison and Laura Lippman.
Contents
Otto PenzlerCorben; Introduction - Otto Penzler; One, Two, Three - Paul Cain; The Creeping Siamese - Dashiell Hammett; Honest Money - Erle Stanley Gardner; Frost Rides Alone - Horace McCoy; Stag Party - Charles G Booth; Double Check - Thomas Walsh; The City of Hell! - Leslie T White; Red Wind - Raymond Chandler Wise Guy - Frederick Nebel; Murder Picture - George Harmon Coxe; The Price of a Dime - Norbert Davis; Chicago Confetti - William Rollins, Jr; Two Murders, One Crime - Cornell Woolrich; The Third Murderer - Carroll John Daly. Part Two The Villains: Foreword - Otto Penzler; Introduction - Harlan Ellison; The Cat Woman - Erle Stanley Gardner; The Dilemma of the Dead Lady - Cornell Woolrich; The House of Kaa - Richard B. Sale; The Invisible Millionaire - Leslie Charteris; Faith - Dashiell Hammett; Pastorale - James M. Cain; The Sad Serbian - Frank Gruber; You'll Always Remember Me - Steve Fisher; Finger Man - Raymond Chandler; You'll Die Laughing - Norbert Davis; About Kid Deth - Raoul Whitfield; The Sinister Sphere - Frederick C. Davis; Pigeon Blood - Paul Cain; The Perfect Crime - C. S. Montanye; The Monkey Murder - Erle Stanley Gardner; The Crimes of Richmond City (Raw Law; Dog Eat Dog; The Law Laughs Last; Law Without Law; Graft) - Frederick Nebel. Part Three The Dames: Preface - Otto Penzler; Introduction - Laura Lippman; Angel Face - Cornell Woolrich; Chosen to Die - Leslie T. White; A Pinch of Snuff - Eric Taylor; Killer in the Rain - Raymond Chandler; Sally the Sleuth - Adolphe Barreaux; A Shock for the Countess - C. S. Montanye; Snowbound - C. B. Yorke; The Girl Who Knew Too Much - Randolph Barr; The Corpse in the Crystal - D. B. McCandless; He Got What He Asked For - D. B. McCandless; Gangster's Brand - P. T. Luman; Dance Macabre - Robert Reeves; The Girl with the Silver Eyes - Dashiell Hammett; The Jane from Hell's Kitchen - Perry Paul; The Duchess Pulls a Fast One - Whitman Chambers; Mansion of Death - Roger Torrey; Concealed Weapon - Roger Torrey; The Devil's Bookkeeper - Carlos Martinez; Black Legion - Lars Anderson; Three Wise Men of Babylon - Richard Sale; The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon - Eugene Thomas; Brother Murder - T. T. Flynn; Kindly Omit Flowers - Stewart Sterling. Contributors Notes. Permissions Acknowledgements.
