| Description |
vi, 521 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Max Allan Collins -- Meanest cop in the world / Chester Himes -- Just another stiff / Carroll John Daly -- Something for the sweeper / Norbert Davis -- I feel bad killing you / Leigh Brackett -- Don't look behind you / Fredric Brown -- Death comes gift-wrapped / William P. McGivern -- Murder for money / John D. MacDonald -- Cigarette girl / James M. Cain -- Guilt-edged blonde / Ross Macdonald -- Gesture / Gil Brewer -- Plunge / David Goodis -- Tomorrow I die / Mickey Spillane -- Never shake a family tree / Donald E. Westlake -- Somebody cares / Talmage Powell -- Granny woman / Dorothy B. Hughes -- Wanted - Dead and alive / Stephen Marlowe -- Double take / Richard S. Prather -- Real shape of the coast / John Lutz -- Dead men don't dream / Evan Hunter -- Used / Loren D. Estleman -- Busted blossoms / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- Kerman kill / William Campbell Gault -- Deceptions / Marcia Muller -- Nickel Derby / Robert J. Randisi -- Reason why / Ed Gorman -- No comment / John Jakes -- How would you like it? / Lawrence Block -- Grace notes / Sara Paretsky -- One night at Dolores Park / Bill Pronzini -- Dead drunk / Lia Matera -- Kaddish for the kid / Max Allan Collins -- Lost and found / Benjamin M. Schutz. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Spillane, Mickey, 1918-2006.
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Collins, Max Allan.
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| ISBN |
0451205960 paperback |
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