Hardboiled L.A. Pulp - Short Stories of Hardened Cops in a Tough Town

By Various

Mean streets, quick fists, and quicker guns: this collection gathers vintage pulp crime fiction from the golden age of the American detective magazine, set amid the sunbaked corruption of early Los Angeles.

Featuring stories by Dashiell Hammett, Carroll John Daly, and Robert Leslie Bellem, this anthology showcases the tough, terse style that defined hard-boiled crime writing in the 1920s and 1930s. Hammett, the former Pinkerton operative who created Sam Spade and the Continental Op, gave the form its lean realism; Daly, with his gun-toting Race Williams, helped invent it in the pages of Black Mask; and Bellem brought lurid, wisecracking energy to the Hollywood underworld. Together their stories capture a world of hard cops, crooked money, and casual violence, told in the fast, slangy prose that made pulp fiction an enduring American art form.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447406400
• ISBN13: 9781447406402
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Detective Fiction Classics
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"