Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s And '40s

Name: Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s And '40s
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ISBN: 9780307280480

ISBN-10: 0307280489

ISBN-13: 9780307280480

Edition: 2007

Authors: Otto Penzler

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1168
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.10" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English

Otto Penzler owns the Mysterious Bookshop in New York & founded the Mysterious Press & Otto Penzler Books. He has written & edited several books, including the Edgar-winning "Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection".



Foreword


The Crimefighters


Harlan Coben


Introduction Paul Cain: One, Two, Three


The Creeping Siamese Erle


Honest Money


Frost Rides Alone


Double Check


Stag Party


The City of Hell!


Red Wind


Wise Guy


Murder Picture


The Price of a Dime


Chicago Confetti


Two Murders, One Crime Carroll


The Third Murderer


The Villains


Introduction Erle


The Cat-Woman


The Dilemma of the Dead


The House of Kaa


The Invisible Millionaire


You’ll Always Remember Me


Faith


Pastorale


The Sad Serbian


Finger Man Erle


The Monkey Murder


About Kid Deth


The Sinister Sphere


Pigeon Blood


The Perfect Crime


You’ll Die Laughing


The Crimes of Richmond City


Raw Law


Dog Eat Dog


The Law Laughs Last


Law Without Law


Graft


The Dames


Introduction


Angel Face


Chosen to Die


A Pinch of Snuff


Killer in the Rain


Sally the Sleuth


C. S. Montanye: A Shock for the Countess


Snowbound


The Girl Who Knew Too Much


The Corpse in the Crystal


He Got What He Asked For


Gangster’s Brand


Dance Macabre


The Girl with the Silver Eyes


The Jane from Hell’s Kitchen


The Duchess Pulls a Fast One


Mansion of Death


Concealed Weapon


The Devil’s Bookkeeper


Black Legion


Three Wise Men of Babylon


The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon


Brother Murder


Kindly Omit Flowers


Contributors


Notes


Permissions


Acknowledgments