The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action Author:Maxim Jakubowski (Editor) Packed solid with seven decades of pulp action and peopled by shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked cops, and gruff private eyes, this new collection of hard-boiled tales includes classics by such masters of the craft as Dashiell Hammett, Robert Leslie Bellem, Cornell Woolrich, and Erle Stanley Gardner, as well as some o... more »f the best modern crime fiction to be published by postwar giants like John D. MacDonald, Ross McDonald, Ed McBain, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, and James Ellroy.
Contents:
Kid Clips a Coupon / Erle Stanley Gardner
Goodbye Hannah / Steve Fisher
Sinners' Paradise / Raoul Whitfield
Motel / Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain)
Smile, Corpse, Smile! / Bruno Fischer
Pulp Connection / Bill Pronzini
Brush Babe's Poison Pallet / Bruce Cassiday
Gangsta Wore Red / Michael Guinzburg
Caravan to Tarim / David Goodis
Lady Who Left Her Coffin / Hugh B. Cave
Death at the Main / Frank Gruber
Red Goose / Norbert Davis
First Five in Line / Charles Willeford
Where There's a Will, There's a Slay / Frederick C. Davis