The Hard-boiled detective
Subtitle: stories from Black mask magazine, 1920-1951
By: edited and with an introduction by Herbert Ruhm.
Contributors: Ruhm, Herbert.
Publisher: Vintage Books; New York: Vintage Books # V-309 1st Edition 1977
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American.; Noir fiction, American.
Other titles: Black mask.
Table of contents: title: Daly, C. J. The false Burton Combs.; title: Collinson, P. The road home.; title: Hammett, D. The gutting of Couffignal.; title: Davis, N. Kansas.; title: Nebel, F. Take it and like it.; title: Chandler, R. Goldfish.; title: Dent, L. Angelfish.; title: Gardner, E. S. Leg man.; title: Coxe, G. H. Once around the clock.; title: Constiner, M. The turkey buzzard blues.; title: Brandon, W. It's so peaceful in the country.; title: Hamlin, C. Killer come home.; title: Fairman, P. W. Big-time operator.; title: Fischer, B. Five o'clock menace.