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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

Otto Penzler
4.5
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Duration
73h 18m
Year
2020
Language
English
Publisher
Highbridge Company

About

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 new 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.

Related Subjects

  • Hard-Boiled
  • Mystery & Detective
  • Adult Fiction
  • Traditional
  • Collections & Anthologies

Artists

Otto PenzlerAuthor
Eric Jason MartinReader
Daniel Thomas MayReader
Traci OdomReader

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