Shamus-winner Max Allan Collins and crime-novel king Mickey Spillane team up to co-edit A Century of Noir: Thirty-two Classic Crime Stories, a collection that includes tales by the aforementioned as well as by luminaries such as Chester Himes, James M. Cain, Donald E. Westlake, Sara Paretsky and Evan Hunter. It may not actually span a century, but this volume offers plenty of blood, booze and cigarette smoke in worlds populated by flinty men and fetching women.
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Product Description

Thirty-two stories of stunning ingenuity. Thirty-two writers of legendary genius. One hundred years of crime fiction in a one-of-a-kind collection. Edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Introduction by Max Allan Collins.

Featuring stories by:

Lawrence Block
Leigh Brackett
Gil Brewer
Fredric Brown
James M. Cain
Max Allan Collins
Carroll John Daly
Norbert Davis
Loren D. Estleman
William Campbell Gault
David Goodis
Edward Gorman
Chester Himes
Dorothy B. Hughes
Evan Hunter
John Jakes
Stuart M. Kaminsky
John Lutz
John D. MacDonald
Ross Macdonald
Stephen Marlowe
Lia Matera
William P. McGivern
Marcia Muller
Sara Paretsky
Talmage Powell
Richard S. Prather
Bill Pronzini
Robert Randisi
Benjamin M. Schutz
Mickey Spillane
Donald E. Westlake