Hard-boiled : an anthology of American crime stories
(1995)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/HARD-BOILED/SC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
DESCRIPTION
viii, 532 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0195084993 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Scorched face /
Dashiell Hammett -- Round trip /
W. R. Burnett -- Mistral /
Raoul Whitfield -- Backwash /
Frederick Nebel -- Trouble-chaser /
Paul Cain -- Fruit tramp /
Daniel Mainwaring -- Brush fire /
James M. Cain -- Human interest stuff /
Brett Halliday -- Waiting for Rusty /
William Cole -- I'll be waiting /
Raymond Chandler -- Marijuana and a pistol /
Chester Himes -- Who said I was dead /
Norbert Davis -- Nor iron bars /
John D. MacDonald -- Dock walloper /
Benjamin Appel -- Three-ten to Yuma /
Elmore Leonard -- Bobby-soxer /
Jonathan Craig -- Black pudding /
David Goodis -- Guilt-edged blonde /
Ross Macdonald -- Mama's boy /
David Alexander -- Screen test of Mike Hammer /
Mickey Spillane -- Home /
Gil Brewer -- So pale, so cold, so fair /
Leigh Brackett -- A piece of ground /
Helen Nielsen -- Merry, merry Christmas /
Evan Hunter -- Forever after /
Jim Thompson -- Old pro /
H. A. DeRosso -- Saturday night deaths /
Michael Kerr -- Graveyard shift /
James M. Reasoner -- Deadhead coming down /
Margaret Maron -- To Florida /
Robert Sampson -- It's a hard world /
Andrew Vachss -- Junior Jackson's parable /
James Hannah -- Bonding /
Faye Kellerman -- Gravy train /
James Ellroy -- Batman's helpers /
Lawrence Block -- Long silence after /
Ed Gorman