The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action
Lawrence Block & Fredric Brown & Bruce Cassiday & Hugh B. Cave & Frederick C. Davis & Norbert Davis & Bruno Fisher & Steve Fischer & Erle Stanley Gardner & David Goodis & Ed Gorman & Frank Gruber & Michael Guinzburg & Maxim Jakubowski & Joe R. Lansdale & John D. MacDonald & Ed McBain & Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini & Mark Timlin & Roger Torrey & Thomas Walsh & Raoul Whitfield & Charles Willeford
Book 1 of Mammoth Books
Language: English
Publisher: Robinson
Published: May 15, 2001
Description:
We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides — pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attorneys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature’s best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...