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Bill Pronzini, Jack Adrian, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Norbert Davis, John D. MacDonald, Benjamin Appel, Elmore Leonard, Jonathan Craig, David Goodis, Ross Macdonald, W.R. Burnett, Mickey Spillane, Gil Brewer, Leigh Brackett, Helen

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Paperback, Published in May 1997 by Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN10: 019510353X | ISBN13: 9780195103533

Page count: 544

Compellingly and compulsively readable, "Hard-bolied: An Anthology of American Crime Stories" is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Included are thirty-six superbly suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the Golden Age of the legendary pulp magazine "Black Mask" in the 1930s, to the arrival of the tough digest "Manhunt" in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades woth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett's 1925 tour de force "The Scorched Face" to Ed Gorman's 1992 "The Long Silence After." Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Raymond Chandler, Norbert Davis, Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block.