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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps - by Otto Penzler (Paperback)

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  • The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.
  • About the Author: Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.
  • 1168 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective

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About the Book



Here are 45 of the best stories and the major writers who ever appeared in celebrated pulps like "Black Mask, Dime Detective," and "Detective Fiction Weekly." These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives.



Book Synopsis



The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train--a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best.

Including:

- Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett.

- Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel,

one of the masters of the form.

- A never before published Dashiell Hammett story.

- Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many

many more of whom you've probably never heard.

- Three deadly sections-The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames-with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben,

Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman

Featuring:

- Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good.

- A kid so smart-he'll die of it.

- A soft-hearted loan shark's legman learning-the hard way-never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger.

- The uncanny "Moon Man" and his mad-money victims.



About the Author



Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year. His other anthologies include Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time, and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense. He lives in New York City.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 7.0 Inches (W) x 2.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.67 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 1168
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Paperback
Author: Otto Penzler
Language: English
Street Date: November 6, 2007
TCIN: 83810971
UPC: 9780307280480
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-7397
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 2.67 pounds
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