Hard-boiled
Subtitle: an anthology of American crime stories
By: edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian.
Contributors: Pronzini, Bill.; Adrian, Jack.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Crime -- United States -- Fiction; Noir fiction, American
Description: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories never published before in book form.

Included are thirty-six sublimely suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings during the golden age of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask in the 1920s, to the arrival of the tough digest Manhunt in the 1950s, and finally leading up to present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy.
Notes: Includes index.