The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

✍ Scribed by Penzler, Otto (Editor)

• Book ID: 108574123
• Publisher: Vintage
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307494160

✦ Synopsis

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 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 never before published 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.
• Three deadly sections - The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames - with three unstoppable introductions 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 of it.
• A soft-hearted loan shark's legman learning - the hard way - never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger.
• The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.