Hardboiled - Pronzini, Bill / Adrian, Jack (eds.)
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Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories offers thirty-six superb stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to Faye Kellerman, Lawrence Block, and James Ellroy.

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Compellingly and compulsively readable, Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories offers thirty-six superb stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form. Here are eight decades worth of the best writing about betrayal, murder, and mayhem: from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to Faye Kellerman, Lawrence Block, and James Ellroy.
Autorenporträt
Jack Adrian is an authority on popular and genre fiction in the twentieth century, and is the author of many books, including anthologies such as Strange Tales from the Strand, Detective Stories from the Strand (both OUP, 1991). and The Oxford Book of Historical Short Stories (OUP, 1994). 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.