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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

The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age–The '20s, '30s & '40s

Edited by Otto Penzler

Edited by Otto Penzler

Edited by Otto Penzler

Edited by Otto Penzler

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Category: Noir Mysteries

Category: Noir Mysteries

Paperback $28.95

Nov 06, 2007 | ISBN 9780307280480

Ebook $12.99

Dec 24, 2008 | ISBN 9780307494160

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    About The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

    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 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.

    About The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

    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 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.

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    About Otto Penzler

    Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA’s Ellery Queen Award and the Raven…. More about Otto Penzler

    About Otto Penzler

    Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA’s Ellery Queen Award and the Raven…. More about Otto Penzler

    Product Details

    Category: Noir Mysteries

    Paperback | $28.95
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Nov 06, 2007 | 1168 Pages | 7 x 9-1/8 | ISBN 9780307280480

    Category: Noir Mysteries

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Dec 24, 2008 | 1168 Pages | ISBN 9780307494160

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    Author Essay

    Read the foreword by Otto Penzler and view art from the original pulp magazines.

    Table Of Contents

    Otto Penzler: Foreword

    PART ONE
    THE CRIMEFIGHTERS

    Harlan Coben: Introduction
    Paul Cain: One, Two, Three
    Dashiell Hammett: The Creeping Siamese
    Erle Stanley Gardner: Honest Money
    Horace McCoy: Frost Rides Alone
    Thomas Walsh: Double Check
    Charles G. Booth: Stag Party
    Leslie T. White: The City of Hell!
    Raymond Chandler: Red Wind
    Frederick Nebel: Wise Guy
    George Harmon Coxe: Murder Picture
    Norbert Davis: The Price of a Dime
    William Rollins, Jr.: Chicago Confetti
    Cornell Woolrich: Two Murders, One Crime
    Carroll John Daly: The Third Murderer

    PART TWO
    THE VILLAINS

    Harlan Ellison: Introduction
    Erle Stanley Gardner: The Cat-Woman
    Cornell Woolrich: The Dilemma of the Dead Lady
    Richard Sale: The House of Kaa
    Leslie Charteris: The Invisible Millionaire
    Steve Fisher: You’ll Always Remember Me
    Dashiell Hammett: Faith
    James M. Cain: Pastorale
    Frank Gruber: The Sad Serbian
    Raymond Chandler: Finger Man
    Erle Stanley Gardner:The Monkey Murder
    Raoul Whitfield: About Kid Deth
    Frederick C. Davis: The Sinister Sphere
    Paul Cain: Pigeon Blood
    C. S. Montanye: The Perfect Crime
    Norbert Davis: You’ll Die Laughing
    Frederick Nebel: The Crimes of Richmond City
    i) Raw Law
    ii) Dog Eat Dog
    iii) The Law Laughs Last
    iv) Law Without Law
    v) Graft

    PART THREE
    THE DAMES

    Laura Lippman: Introduction
    Cornell Woolrich: Angel Face
    Leslie T. White: Chosen to Die
    Eric Taylor: A Pinch of Snuff
    Raymond Chandler: Killer in the Rain
    Adolphe Barreaux: Sally the Sleuth
    C. S. Montanye: A Shock for the Countess
    C. B. Yorke: Snowbound
    Randolph Barr: The Girl Who Knew Too Much
    D. B. McCandless: The Corpse in the Crystal
    D. B. McCandless: He Got What He Asked For
    P. T. Luman: Gangster’s Brand
    Robert Reeves: Dance Macabre
    Dashiell Hammett: The Girl with the Silver Eyes
    Perry Paul: The Jane from Hell’s Kitchen
    Whitman Chambers: The Duchess Pulls a Fast One
    Roger Torrey: Mansion of Death
    Roger Torrey: Concealed Weapon
    Carlos Martinez: The Devil’s Bookkeeper
    Lars Anderson: Black Legion
    Richard Sale: Three Wise Men of Babylon
    Eugene Thomas: The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon
    T. T. Flynn: Brother Murder
    Stewart Sterling: Kindly Omit Flowers

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