Edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.
Published 2002.
ISBN-10: 0451205960
ISBN-13: 978-0451205964
Anthology of short
stories.
Description:
Bleak streets and
bleaker futures. Trapped heroes and desperate shreds of hope. Wicked women and
broken dreams. Urban whirlpools and inexorable fates. Call it noir. Call it
pulp. Call it black – and blue. It’s a tradition – tough, reckless, and
uncompromising – born from the fierce imaginations of a century of writers with
a unique talent for creating shadows out of words and turning raw emotion into
pure poetry.
And
this is noir at its incomparable best – thirty-two of the finest crime stories
of the twentieth century, personally chosen by Shamus Award winner Max Allan
Collins and Mickey Spillane, one of the true masters of hard-boiled fiction.