Hard-Boiled Detectives: 23 Great Stories from Dime Detective Magazine

✍ Scribed by Robert Weinberg; Stefan R. Dziemianowicz; Martin H. Greenberg

• Book ID: 111881248
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 500 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780517060094

✦ Synopsis

Not one of the hundreds of hard-boiled detectives who did their own small part keeping our country safe between 1920 and 1950 enjoys the immortality of Sherlock Holmes or even Dick Tracy, and the adventures of only a few have achieved lasting fame through perennial book reprints. It is left to anthologies like Hard-Boiled Detectives to remind readers of America’s hard-boiled heritage, and to champion the reputation of a character who probably would have shrugged off all the attention.

Includes the following 23 stories:

HELL’S PAY CHECK—Frederick Nebel

THE CRIME MACHINE—Carroll John Daly

THE HAND OF HORROR—Erle Stanley Gardner

NINE PARTS DEVIL—Max Brand

A BURIAL IS ARRANGED—John Lawrence

A MAN’S LAST HOURS—William E. Barrett

SOMETHING FOR THE SWEEPER—Norbert Davis

FOOTPRINTS ON A BRAIN—D. L. Champion

THE LADY IN THE LAKE—Raymond Chandler

STRANGLER’S KILL—Merle Constiner

DING DONG BELLE—Hugh B. Cave

YOU SLAY ME, BABY—Frederick C. Davis

SLEEP NO MORE MY LOVELY—G. T. Fleming-Roberts

I’LL SLAY YOU IN MY DREAMS—Bruno Fischer

NO MINIMUM FOR MURDER—Julius Long

A GHOUL AND HIS MONEY—C. M. Kornbluth

COLD STORAGE—Robert Turner

DEATH COMES GIFT-WRAPPED—William P. McGivern

A DISH OF HOMICIDE—Hank Searls

SAFE AS ANY SAP—William Tenn

NONE BUT THE LETHAL HEART—William C. Gault

THE MAN FROM LIMBO—John D. MacDonald

MURDERER’S ENCORE—Murray Leinster