Hard-boiled, an anthology of American crime stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian
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Hard-boiled, an anthology of American crime stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian
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Hard-boiled
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edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian
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an anthology of American crime stories
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Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form. Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the golden age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Containing many notable rarities, it celebrates a genre that has profoundly shaped not only American literature and film, but how we see our heroes and ourselves
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