The Black Lizard big book of pulps - Otto Penzler

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.