Стюарт Стерлинг - The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps

“Yair. Yair. That’s why she had to axe them in small hunks. So she could carry the pieces out of here and down to the wharf, without being conspicuous!” He went over, hauled the girl to her feet. “Or maybe it’s you just like cutting up people. Like Agousti.”

Vanya touched the wound in Stefan’s neck, as if she couldn’t believe her eyes. “Stefan went to... see Agousti. I know nothing of that.”

“Don’t, eh? Then it won’t be your prints on that stem-cutter or the doorknob downstairs, eh? You didn’t decide Agousti’d have to be shut up before he prevented your getaway, then?”

Mrs. Kalvak looked up at him. There was murder in her eyes.

Helen hurried to the front room. “I’m going to call the wrecking crew, to take over here.”

“I’ve had all of this I want,” Teccard agreed. “And I’ll sure be glad when you don’t have to muck around in this kind of slop.”

“Man works from sun to sun,” the sergeant twiddled the dial, “but woman’s work is never done. In the police department.”

“Far as that goes,” he got out his twisters, “one cop is enough... in any one family. Don’t you think?”

Otto Penzleris the founder of New York’s Mysterious Bookshop and The Mysterious Press. He has now edited ten annual editions of The Best American Mystery Stories. He lives in New York.

Harlan Cobenhas topped bestseller charts the world over with novels such as The Innocent, Just One Look, No Second Chance, Tell No One, and Gone for Good. He is the first author ever to win all four major crime-writing awards in the USA. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children.

Harlan Ellisonis renowned in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction for his dry, cutting writing. He is the author of Rumble (Web of the City) and The Sound of a Scythe. He has won numerous awards, including two Edgars. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

Laura Lippmanwas born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where she now lives. She is the acclaimed author of By a Spider’s Thread, No Good Deeds, and What the Dead Know, featuring her series character, Tess Monaghan. She has won numerous awards, including an Edgar for Charm City and the Anthony Award for In Big Trouble.

“One, Two, Three” by Paul Cain from Black Mask Magazine, May 1933. Copyright © 1933 by Pro-Disributors, Inc.; renewed 1950 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“The Creeping Siamese” by Dashiell Hammett copyright © 1926; renewed 1953. Reprinted by permission of the Dashiell Hammett Literary Trust and The Joy Harris Literary Agency.

“Honest Money” by Erle Stanley Gardner copyright © 1932; renewed 1960. Reprinted by permission of Hobson & Hughes LLP on behalf of the Erle Stanley Gardner Trust.

“Frost Rides Alone” by Horace McCoy from Black Mask Magazine, March 1930. Copyright © 1930 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1947 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“Double Check” by Thomas Walsh from Black Mask Magazine, July 1933. Copyright © 1933 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1950 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“Stag Party” by Charles G. Booth from Black Mask Magazine, November 1933. Copyright © 1933 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1950 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“The City of Hell!” by Leslie T. White from Black Mask Magazine, October 1935. Copyright © 1935 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1952 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“Red Wind” by Raymond Chandler copyright © 1938. Reprinted by kind permission of the Estate of Raymond Chandler.

“Wise Guy” by Frederick Nebel from Black Mask Magazine, April 1930. Copyright © 1930 by Pro-Distribotrs, Inc.; renewed 1947 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“Murder Picture” by George Harmon Coxe from Black Mask Magazine, January 1935. Copyright © 1935 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1952 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“The Price of a Dime” by Norbert Davis from Black Mask Magazine, April 1934. Copyright © 1934 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1951 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“Chicago Confetti” by William Rollins, Jr., from Black Mask Magazine, March 1932. Copyright © 1932 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1949 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“Three Kills for One” (a.k.a. “Two Murders, One Crime”) by Cornell Woolrich copyright © 1942 by Cornell Woolrich; renewed 1970 by JP Morgan Chase as Trustee for The Claire Woolrich Scholarship Fund a/w Cornell Woolrich R671100, September 8, 1977. Reprinted by permission of JP Morgan Chase Bank and The Firm on behalf of The Claire Woolrich Memorial Scholarship Fund.

“The Third Murderer” by Carroll John Daly from Black Mask Magazine, June, July and August 1931. Copyright© 1931 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1948 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.

“The Cat Woman” by Erle Stanley Gardner from Black Mask Magazine, February 1927. Copyright © 1927 by Erle Stanley Gardner. Reprinted by permission of Hobson & Hughes LLP on behalf of the Erle Stanley Gardner Trust.

“The Dilemma of the Dead Lady” by Cornell Woolrich. Copyright © 1936 by Cornell Woolrich. Originally published as “Wardrobe Trunk” in Detective Fiction Weekly, July 4, 1936. Copyright © by JP Morgan Chase Bank as Trustee for The Claire Woolrich Memorial Scholarship Fund a/w of Cornell Woolrich R 671100, June 24, 1936. Reprinted by permission of JP Morgan Chase Bank and The Firm on behalf of the Claire Woolrich Memorial Scholarship Fund.