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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s '30s '40s - Vintage Crime/Blck Lizard Orig The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. — 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...  more » 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. Including: • Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett. • Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form. • A never before published Dashiell Hammett story. • Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many many more of whom you’ve probably never heard. • Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman Featuring: • Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. • A kid so smart–he’ll die of it. • A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger. • The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9780307280480 ISBN-10: 0307280489 Publication Date: 11/6/2007 Pages: 1,168 Rating: Currently 4.3/5 Stars.  3 4.3 stars, based on 3 ratings Publisher: Vintage Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 32 Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

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