The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age–The ’20s, ’30s ’40s-Fast Shipping

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The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing everassembled.

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven storiesand two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—abullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writerwho ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, DetectiveFiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre andgave 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 hideoutswhere conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its grittybest.

Including:

• Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, ErleStanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett.

• Complete novels from Carroll John Daly,the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel,

one of themasters of the form.

• A never before published Dashiell Hammett story.

• Everyother major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James , Horace McCoy, and many

many more ofwhom you’ve probably never heard.

• Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppableintroductions 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 ofit.

• A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strangeblonde a hamburger.

• The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.