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The Mammoth Book of Pulp
Fiction (1996).
Hardboiled writing from
Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Jim
Thompson and many more…
Edited by Maxim
Jakubowski.
Mammoth Books.
ISBN-10: 0786703008
ISBN-13: 978-0786703005
Back cover description:
Fast action and wild,
wild pleasure: a massive collection of seven decades of pure, unadulterated
pulp fiction.
The paper may have
yellowed and crumbled away but the stories and a thousand thrills still hit the
spot. Join the shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked and
sometimes honest cops on a rollercoaster ride through the mean streets of
popular literature in the company of such superlative writers as: Dashiell
Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Charles Willeford, David Goodis,
Frederic Brown, Robert Bloch, Karlan Ellison, John D. MacDonald, Jim Thompson,
William P. McGivern, Lawrence Block, Bill Pronzini, Mickey Spillane.
And twenty other leading
lights of the hardboiled school of writing, as the action moves back from the
silver screen to the pages where it all began, Just watch out for open windows
and flying bullets!
Contents:
Acknowledgements;
Introduction; Too Many Have Lived, by Dashiell Hammett; Flight to Nowhere, by Charles
Williams; Black, by Paul Cain; Finders Killers! by John D. MacDonald; Murder’s
Mandate, by W. T. Ballard; Cigarette Girl, by James M. Cain; The Getaway, by
Gil Brewer; Preview of Murder, by Robert Leslie Bellem; Forever After, by Jim
Thompson; The Bloody Tide, by Day Keene; Death Comes Gift-Wrapped, by William
P. McGivern; The Girl Behind the Hedge, by Mickey Spillane; Enter Scarface, by
Armitage Trail; A Candle for the Bag Lady, by Lawrence Block; Black Pudding, by
David Goodis; A Matter of Principal, by Max Allan Collins; Citizen’s Arrest, by
Charles Willeford; Sleeping Dog, by Ross Macdonald; The Wench is Dead, by
Fredric Brown; So Dark for April, by Howard Browne; We Are All Dead, by Bruno
Fischer; Death is a Vampire, by Robert Bloch; Divide and Conquer, by Jack
Ritchie; A Real Nice Guy, by William F. Nolan; Stacked Deck, by Bill Pronzini;
So Young, So Fair, So Dead, by John Lutz; Effective Medicine, by B. Traven;
Killing Bernstein, by Harlan Ellison; The Second Coming, by Joe Gores; Hibiscus
and Homicide, by William Campbell Gault; Hell on Wheels, by Thomas S. Roche;
Ordo, by Donald E. Westlake.
