Hard-Boiled Detectives
Subtitle: 23 Great Stories from Dime Detective Magazine
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Gramercy Books
Published: March 3, 1992
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 454
Copyright date: 1991
First sentence: When discussing national art forms, Americans point with some pride to jazz, the Broadway musical, and even to rock and roll music.
Notes: Printing statement: "8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
LCCN listed on the copyright page "91-23828" is invalid.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Stefan R. Dziemianowicz
pagenum: ix; label: Hell’s Paycheck (1931)
title: Frederick Nebel
pagenum: 1; label: The Crime Machine (1932)
title: Carroll John Daly
pagenum: 25; label: The Hand of Horror (1933)
title: Erle Stanley Gardner
pagenum: 36; label: Nine Parts Devil (1934)
title: Max Brand
pagenum: 65; label: A Burial is Arranged (1935)
title: John Lawrence
pagenum: 92; label: A Man’s Last Hours (1936)
title: William E. Barrett
pagenum: 123; label: Something for the Sweeper (1937)
title: Norbert Davis
pagenum: 131; label: Footprints on a Brain (1938)
title: D. L. Champion
pagenum: 143; label: The Lady in the Lake (1939)
title: Raymond Chandler
pagenum: 165; label: Stangler’s Kill (1940)
title: Merle Costiner
pagenum: 201; label: Ding Dong Belle (1941)
title: Hugh B. Cave
pagenum: 234; label: You Slay Me, Baby (1942)
title: Frederick C. Davis
pagenum: 250; label: Sleep No More, My Lovely (1943)
title: G. T. Fleming-Roberts
pagenum: 287; label: I’ll Slay You in My Dreams (1944)
title: Bruno Fisher
pagenum: 299; label: No Minimum for Murder (1945)
title: Julius Long
pagenum: 321; label: A Ghoul and His Money (1946)
title: C. M. Kornbluth
pagenum: 332; label: Cold Storage (1947)
title: Robert Turner
pagenum: 341; label: Death Comes Gift-Wrapped (1948)
title: William P. McGivern
pagenum: 348; label: A Dish of Homicide (1949)
title: Hank Searls
pagenum: 357; label: Safe as Any Sap (1950)
title: William Tenn
pagenum: 375; label: None but the Lethal Heart (1951)
title: William C. Gault
pagenum: 385; label: The Man from Limbo (1952)
title: John D. MacDonald
pagenum: 401; label: Murderer’s Encore (1953)
title: Murray Leinster
pagenum: 428