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an anthology of consistently high quality, full of forgotten gems alongside the famous names, and a potent reminder that it's a noir, noir world. John Williams, The Mail on Sunday One of the best anthologies ever to trace the hard-nosed, amoral school of American short crime fiction. Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

an anthology of consistently high quality, full of forgotten gems alongside the famous names, and a potent reminder that it's a noir, noir world. John Williams, The Mail on Sunday One of the best anthologies ever to trace the hard-nosed, amoral school of American short crime fiction. Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

""Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff.""--Newsweek ""The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter how long your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Pronzini and Adrian have compiled a superb anthology of gritty crime fiction.""--Publishers Weekly ""An excellent collection that reveals the scope and complexity of the genre. Very readable.""--Eric Bateman, Great Basin College ""Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian, present[s] seven decades of grimly realistic tales, each 'so hard-boiled it could break your teeth.'""--The Wall Street Journal ""Editors Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian clearly know their stuff. ""I'll Be Waiting"" is Raymond Chandler's most subtly melancholy tale, and ""Three-Ten to Yuma"" reminds us that even when Elmore Leonard wrote Westerns, he never saw a white hat he didn't want to soil.""--Newsweek ""Ranges from Dashiell Hammett and W.R. Burnett in the 1920s, when the hard-boiled style emerged as a recognizable subgenre of crime fiction, to James Ellroy and Lawrence in the '90s....A thoughtful introduction salutes the role of Spillane in revitalizing the genre.""--Los Angeles Times Book Review ""No one knows more about the hard-boiled American mystery than Pronzini and Adrian. Here's a book that belongs on every reader's shelf--after they've enjoyed a week or two of pure pleasure savoring its contents.""--Edward D. Hoch, editor The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories ""The best-balanced, best-edited selection available today. No matter how long your shelf of hard-boiled anthologies, you'll want this one.""--Kirkus Reviews ""Pronzini and Adrian have compiled a superb anthology of gritty crime fiction.""--Publishers Weekly ""These 36 selections represent the best of the genre's short form....A wonderfully evil collection.""--Booklist

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Bill Pronzini is a well-known mystery and suspense writer of over forty novels, and is best known as the creator of the ""Nameless Detective"" series. He served as the first president of the Private Eye Writers of America, and won that organization's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. Jack Adrian is an authority on popular and genre fiction in the twentieth century, and is the author of many books, and editor and co-editor of numerous anthologies, including Crime at Christmas, The Art of the Impossible, and The Oxford Book of Historical Stories.

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