Product Description

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.

was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like Murder Is Bad Luck, Ten Carets of Lead, and Drop Dead Twice. Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of Americas finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of Americas underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this.

Featuring

Deadly Diamonds

Dancing Rats

A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life

A Parrot that Wouldnt Talk

Including

Dashiell Hammetts as it was originally published

Lester Dent's in print for the first time