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The Mammoth Book of
Private Eye Stories (1988).
Edited by Bill Pronzini
and Martin H. Greenberg.
Published by Running
Press.
This revised edition
published in 2004.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0786713712
ISBN-13: 978-0786713714
Description:
The very best in
hardboiled fiction, from such masters as Ross Macdonald, Raymond Chandler,
Marcia Muller, Michael Collins, Ed McBain, William Campbell Gault and many
more.
With
its roots in the American private detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable
back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private eye story remains as popular as
ever. Here are 24 of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled
world of the private eye. The characters in this collection range from the
tough, cynical, hard-drinking Philip Marlowe type to hard-hitting female private
eyes and the one-armed intellectual Dan Fortune – from masters of the genre
past and present.
