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What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? “Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing, and sex,” said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett’s style: “Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it... He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes.”
Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the golden age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Hammett’s 1925 tour de force “The Scorched Face,” in which the disappearance of two sisters leads Hammett’s never-named detective, the Continental Op, straight into a web of sexual blackmail amidst the West Coast elite, to Ed Gorman’s 1992 “The Long Silence After,” a gripping and powerful rendezvous involving a middle class insurance executive, a Chicago streetwalker, and a loaded .38. Other delectable contributions include “Brush Fire” by James M. Cain, author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Raymond Chandler’s “I’ll Be Waiting,” where, for once, the femme fatale is not blond but a redhead, a Ross Macdonald mystery starring Macdonald’s most famous creator, the cryptic Lew Archer, and “The Screen Test of Mike Hammer” by the one and only Mickey Spillane. The hard-boiled cult has more in common with the legendary lawmen of the Wild West than with the gentleman and lady sleuths of traditional drawing room mysteries, and this direct line of descent is on brilliant display in two of the most subtle and tautly written stories in the collection, Elmore Leonard’s “3:10 to Yuma” and John D. MacDonald’s “Nor Iron Bars.” Other contributors include Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), Jim Thompson, Helen Nielsen, Margaret Maron, Andrew Vachss, Faye Kellerman, and Lawrence Block.
Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities, it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film, but how we see our heroes and ourselves.

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Cole, William: “Waiting for Rusty” by William Cole was first published in Black Mask, vol. 22, no. 7, October 1939. Copyright © 1939 by Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1966 by Popular Publications, Inc. Assigned to Keith Alan Deutsch and reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch, proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc. Black Mask and the distinctive logotype © 1994 by Keith Alan Deutsch.

Craig, Jonathan: “The Bobby-Soxer” by Jonathan Craig (Frank E. Smith) was first published in Manhunt, 1953. Copyright 1953 by Flying Eagle Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, L.P., 845 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

Davis, Norbert: “Who Said I Was Dead?” by Norbert Davis was first published in Dime Detective Magazine, August 1942. Copyright © 1942 by Popular Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1970 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by arrangement with Argosy Communications, Inc.

DeRosso, H. A.: “The Old Pro” by H. A. DeRosso was first published in Manhunt, 1960. Copyright © 1960 by Flying Eagle Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, L.P., 845 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

Ellroy, James: “Gravy Train” by James Ellroy was first published in The Armchair Detective. Copyright © 1990 by James Ellroy. Reprinted by permission of The Armchair Detective.®

Goodis, David: “Black Pudding” by David Goodis was first published in Manhunt, December 1953. Copyright 1953 by Flying Eagle Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and their agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, L.P., 845 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

Gorman, Ed: “The Long Silence After” by Ed Gorman was first published in Prisoners and Other Stories. Copyright © 1992 by Ed Gorman. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Halliday, Brett: “Human Interest Stuff” by Brett Halliday (Davis Dresser) was first published in Adventure, September 1938. Copyright 1938 by Popular Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1965 by Brett Halliday. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Davis Dresser.

Hammett, Dashiell: “The Scorched Face” by Dashiell Hammett from The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett. Copyright © 1966 by Lillian Heilman. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc., and the Literary Property Trustees of the Estate of Dashiell Hammett under the will of Lillian Heilman.

Hannah, James: “Junior Jackson’s Parable” by James Hannah from Desperate Measures published by Southern Methodist University Press. Copyright © 1988 by James Hannah. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Himes, Chester: “Marijuana and a Pistol” by Chester Himes was first published in Esquire in 1940. Copyright © 1940 by Esquire, Inc. Copyright © 1968 by Chester Himes. This story was also published in The Collected Stories of Chester Himes. Copyright © 1990 by Lesley Himes. Published in the U.S. by Thunder’s Mouth Press and in Great Britain by Allison & Busby. Used by permission of Thunder’s Mouth Press and the Roslyn Targ Literary Agency, Inc.

Hunter, Evan: “The Merry, Merry Christmas” by Evan Hunter was first published in Manhunt, 1957. Copyright © 1957 by Hui Corporation. Reprinted by permission of the author c/0 William Morris Agency, Inc.

Kellerman, Faye: “Bonding” by Faye Kellerman was first published in Sisters in Crime, ed. by Marilyn Wallace. Copyright © 1989 by Faye Kellerman. Reprinted with permission of the author c/o The Karpfinger Agency.

Kerr, Michael: “The Saturday Night Deaths” by Michael Kerr (Robert Hoskins) was first published in Mystery Monthly, July 1976. Copyright © 1976 by Looking Glass Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, L.P., 845 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

Leonard, Elmore: “Three-Ten to Yuma” by Elmore Leonard was first published in Dime Western, March 1953. Copyright 1953 by Elmore Leonard. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MacDonald, John D.: “Nor Iron Bars” by John D. MacDonald was first published in Doc Savage in 1947. Copyright 1947 by Street & Smith Publications. Reprinted by permission of George Diskant as agent for the Estate of John D. MacDonald.

Macdonald, Ross: “Guilt-Edged Blonde” by Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) was first published in Manhunt, January 1954. Copyright 1953 by Flying Eagle Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1981 by The Margaret Millar Survivor’s Trust u/a 4/12/82. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

Mainwaring, Daniel: “Fruit Tramp” by Daniel Mainwaring was first published in Harper’s Magazine. Reproduced from the July 1934 issue by special permission of Harper’s Magazine. Copyright © 1934 by Harper’s Magazine. Copyright renewed 1961. All rights reserved.

Maron, Margaret: “Deadhead Coming Down” by Margaret Maron was first published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Reknown Publishing, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Nebel, Frederick: “Backwash” by Louis Frederick Nebel from Black Mask, issue 15, no. 3 (May 1932), 66–81. Copyright © 1932 by Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright renewed © 1960 by Popular Publications, Inc. Assigned to Keith Alan Deutsch and reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch, proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc. Black Mask and the distinctive logotype © 1994 Keith Alan Deutsch.

Nielsen, Helen: “A Piece of Ground” by Helen Nielsen was first published in Manhunt, 1957. Copyright © 1957 by Flying Eagle Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, L.P., 845 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

Reasoner, James M.: “Graveyard Shift” by James M. Reasoner, writing as M. R. James, was first published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, November 1978. Copyright © 1978 by Reknown Publishing, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Sampson, Robert: “To Florida” by Robert Sampson is reprinted by permission of the Estate of Robert Sampson. Copyright © 1987 by Robert Sampson.

Spillane, Mickey: “The Screen Test of Mike Hammer” by Mickey Spillane was first published in Male, July 1955. Copyright © 1955 by Mickey Spillane. Reprinted by permission of Mickey Spillane Productions.

Thompson, Jim: “Forever After” by Jim Thompson was first published in Shock Magazine, May 1960. Copyright © 1960 by Winston Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author c/o Richard Curtis Associates, Inc.

Vachss, Andrew: “It’s a Hard World” by Andrew Vachss from Born Bad. Copyright © 1994 by Andrew Vachss. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Whitfield, Raoul: “Mistral” by Raoul Whitfield was first published in Adventure Magazine, December 15, 1931. Copyright 1931 by The Butterick Publishing Co. Published in this anthology by special arrangement with Sheldon Abend d/b/a Authors Research Company, 19 West 44th St., Suite 1204, New York, NY 10036. Copyright © 1994 by Sheldon Abend d/b/a Authors Research Company.

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