The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
(1996).
Hardboiled writing from Dashiell
Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Jim Thompson
and many more…Edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Mammoth Books.
ISBN-10: 0786703008
ISBN-13: 978-0786703005
Back cover description:
Fast action and wild, wild
pleasure: a massive collection of seven decades of pure, unadulterated pulp
fiction.
ISBN-13: 978-0786703005
The paper may have yellowed and
crumbled away but the stories and a thousand thrills still hit the spot. Join
the shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked and
sometimes honest cops on a rollercoaster ride through the mean streets of
popular literature in the company of such superlative writers as: Dashiell
Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Charles Willeford, David Goodis,
Frederic Brown, Robert Bloch, Karlan Ellison, John D. MacDonald, Jim Thompson,
William P. McGivern, Lawrence Block, Bill Pronzini, Mickey Spillane.
And twenty other leading lights
of the hardboiled school of writing, as the action moves back from the silver
screen to the pages where it all began. Just watch out for open windows and
flying bullets!
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Too Many Have Lived, by
Dashiell Hammett; Flight to Nowhere, by Charles Williams; Black, by Paul Cain;
Finders Killers! by John D. MacDonald; Murder’s Mandate, by W. T. Ballard;
Cigarette Girl, by James M. Cain; The Getaway, by Gil Brewer; Preview of
Murder, by Robert Leslie Bellem; Forever After, by Jim Thompson; The Bloody
Tide, by Day Keene; Death Comes Gift-Wrapped, by William P. McGivern; The Girl
Behind the Hedge, by Mickey Spillane; Enter Scarface, by Armitage Trail; A
Candle for the Bag Lady, by Lawrence Block; Black Pudding, by David Goodis; A
Matter of Principal, by Max Allan Collins; Citizen’s Arrest, by Charles
Willeford; Sleeping Dog, by Ross Macdonald; The Wench is Dead, by Fredric
Brown; So Dark for April, by Howard Browne; We Are All Dead, by Bruno Fischer;
Death is a Vampire, by Robert Bloch; Divide and Conquer, by Jack Ritchie; A
Real Nice Guy, by William F. Nolan; Stacked Deck, by Bill Pronzini; So Young,
So Fair, So Dead, by John Lutz; Effective Medicine, by B. Traven; Killing
Bernstein, by Harlan Ellison; The Second Coming, by Joe Gores; Hibiscus and
Homicide, by William Campbell Gault; Hell on Wheels, by Thomas S. Roche; Ordo,
by Donald E. Westlake.