| Description |
xiv, 1150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
A Vintage crime/Black Lizard original |
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Vintage crime/Black Lizard original.
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| Contents |
Part one, the crimefighters: One, two, three / Paul Cain -- The creeping siamese / Dashiell Hammett -- Honest money / Erie Stanley Gardner -- Frost rides alone / Horace McCoy -- Double check / Thomas Walsh -- Stag party / Charles G. Booth -- The city of hell! / Leslie T. White -- Red wind / Raymond Chandler -- Wise guy / Frederick Nebel -- Murder picture / George Harmon Coxe -- The price of a dime / Norbert Davis -- Chicago confetti / William Rollins, Jr. -- The third murderer / Carroll John Daly -- Part two, the villains: The cat-woman / Erie Stanley Gardner -- The dilemma of the dead lady / Cornell Woolrich -- The house of Kaa / Richard Sale -- The invisible millionaire / Leslie Charteris -- You'll always remember me / Steve Fisher -- Faith / Dashiell Hammett -- Pastorale / James M. Cain -- The sad serbian / Frank Gruber -- Finger man / Raymond Chandler -- The monkey murder / Erie Stanley Gardner -- About kid deth / Raoul Whitfield -- The sinister sphere / Frederick C. Davis -- Pigeon blood / Paul Cain -- The perfect crime / C. S. Montanye -- You'll die laughing / Norbert Davis -- The crimes of Richmond City: Raw law -- Bog eat dog -- The law laughs last -- Law without law -- Graft / Frederick Nebel. |
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Part Two The Villains: Introduction / Harlan Ellison -- The Cat woman / Erle Stanley Gardner -- The dilemma of the dead lady / Cornell Woolrich -- The house of Kaa / Richard B. Sale -- The invisible millionaire / Leslie Charteris -- You'll always remember me / Steve Fisher -- Pastorale / James M. Cain -- The sad Serbian / Frank Gruber -- Faith / Dashiell Hammett -- Finger man / Raymond Chandler -- The monkey murder / Erle Stanley Gardner -- About Kid Deth / Raoul Whitfield -- The sinister sphere / Frederick C. Davis -- Pigeon blood / Paul Cain -- The perfect crime / C. S. Montanye -- You'll die laughing / Norbert Davis -- The crimes of Richmond City / Frederick Nebel. |
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Part three, the dames: Angel face / Cornell Woolrich -- Chosen to die / Leslie T. White -- A pinch of snuff / Eric Taylor -- Killer in the rain / Raymond Chandler -- Sally the sleuth / Adolphe Barreaux -- A shock for the countess / C. S. Montanye -- Snowbound / C. B. Yorke -- The firl who knew too much / Randolph Barr -- The corpse in the crystal / D. B. McCandless -- He got what he asked for / D. B. McCandless -- Gangster's brand / P. T. Luman -- Dance Macabre / Robert Reeves -- The girl with the silver eyes / Dashiell Hammett -- The Jane from hell's kitchen / Perry Paul -- The duchess pulls a fast one / Whitman Chambers -- Mansion of death / Roger Torrey -- Concealed weapon / Roger Torrey -- The devil's bookkeeper / Carlos Martinez -- Black legion / Lars Anderson -- Three wise men of Babylon / Richard Sale -- The adventure of the voodoo moon / Eugene Thomas -- Brother murder / T. T. Flynn -- Kindly omit flowers / Stewart Sterling. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories.
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Noir fiction, American.
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| Added Author |
Penzler, Otto.
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| Added Title |
Big book of pulps |
| ISBN |
9780307280480 paperback |
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0307280489 paperback |
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