Harlan Ellison introduces a collection of 16 taut and muscular tales starring some of fiction's hardest-boiled criminals, crooks, deperados and rogues. Anti-heroes to a man, these are the guys who can be guaranteed to outwit the cops, make off with the dough and get the girl. Just don't get in their way. Legendary writers you've already heard of like Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich and Raymond Chandler are here. Legendary writers that you should have heard of like Frederick Nebel, James M. Cain, Norbert Davis, Leslie Charteris, C. S. Montayne and Raoul Whitfield are also where they should be - with the greats. Tailor-made for pulp novices and hard-boiled fans with a soft spot for the masters, this collection shows that some writing has an edge that time just can't dull.
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Rich and glorious... such is the intelligence of the selection that there's ne'r a dull piece here - Good Book Guide
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Harlan Ellison is renowned in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and crime fiction for his dry, cutting writing. He is the author of Rumble (Web of the City) and The Sound of a Scythe. He has won numerous awards including two Edgars. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife. Otto Penzler is the founder of New York's Mysterious Bookshop and the Mysterious Press. He lives in New York.
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This review is from: Pulp Fiction: the Villains (Paperback)
This has an introduction by Harlan Ellison expounding on how dodgy he used to be, and pulp-writing. A pleasant surprise to find here that, along with Hammett and Chandler, was a bunch of stories about various pulp antihero type characters from series, however, short, such as The Cobra, The Moon Man, The Phantom Crook, and even The Saint, whom it is likely many more people will have heard of.Again, one strange decision to include a chunk of stories by one writer, Frederick Nebel, with multiple unrelated 'Richmond City' crime tales, when several more writers could have been featured. Especially given a few of these aren't very good. As such, this anthology only has a 3.40 story average. Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Cat Woman - Erle Stanley Gardner Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Dilemma of the Dead Lady - Cornell Woolrich Pulp Fiction the Villains : The House of Kaa - Richard B. Sale Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Invisible Millionaire - Leslie Charteris Pulp Fiction the Villains : Faith - Dashiell Hammett Pulp Fiction the Villains : Pastorale - James M. Cain Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Sad Serbian - Frank Gruber Pulp Fiction the Villains : You'll Always Remember Me - Steve Fisher Pulp Fiction the Villains : Finger Man - Raymond Chandler Pulp Fiction the Villains : You'll Die Laughing - Norbert Davis Pulp Fiction the Villains : About Kid Deth - Raoul Whitfield Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Sinister Sphere - Frederick C. Davis Pulp Fiction the Villains : Pigeon Blood - Paul Cain Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Perfect Crime - C. S. Montanye Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Monkey Murder - Erle Stanley Gardner Pulp Fiction the Villains : Raw Law - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : Dog Eat Dog - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Law Laughs Last - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : Law Without Law - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : Graft - Frederick Nebel "Miss Jean Ellery annonces that it gives her pleasure to accept the invitation of Ed Jenkins to a holdup and burglary. When do we start?" The Phantom Crook finds himself in the frame of a plot to gain a wealthy man's inheritance and murder his not known about daughter. 3.5 out of 5 Anybody could be a crook, really, when you are carting a corpse around. 4 out of 5 Trying to pull off a snake smuggling plot or get him with a giant python? Don't think that will work on The Cobra. 3 out of 5 A young woman writes to the Saint asking for help, and murder and impersonation follow. 3.5 out of 5 I blame Gud instead. Pass the matches. 3 out of 5 Giving yourself up. 3 out of 5 A Prince of a skip-traced scam. 4 out of 5 Those crazy young murderers. 3.5 out of 5 Casino killing group. 3 out of 5 Collecting apartment murder. 3.5 out of 5 "You got me wrong, Kid," he said. "When did you start packin' a rod?" "When you started rubbing out women!" he said steadily. 3 out of 5 The Moon Man only has to keep his identity secret from his police boss, his girlfriend, and others, as he goes around nicking from them and their acquaintances to help the needy, with the help of a trusted assistant. It is also pointed out that glass bowl heads just might break, too. 3 out of 5 Ruby debts means no divorce needed. 4 out of 5 Gloves off is a problem. 3 out of 5 Simian stone smuggling gums up the works with a caning. 3.5 out of 5 "'Get up - get up,' gritted Cardigan. 'That's only a smell compared with what's coming if you don't come clean. Get up, you dirty little rat!'" 4 out of 5 "'Kennedy,' he said, 'there have been times when I ached to wring your neck. You're a cynical, cold-blooded, snooping, wisecracking example of modern newspaperdom. But, Kennedy, you've got brains -- and you're on the square. Here's to you.'"" 4 out of 5 "Captain MacBride, back again in the Second, ran it with two fists, a dry sense of humor and a generous quantity of brass-bound nerve....He wsa not a pessimists, but a hard-headed materialist, and he rated crooks and gunmen with a certain species of rodent that travels by dark and frequents cellars, sewers and garbage dumps." 3 out of 5 Towing rivals. 3 out of 5 Trucking rivals. 3 out of 5
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