Edited by: Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

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.

Contents:

• The Meanest Cop in the World by Chester Himes
• Just Another Stiff by Carroll John Daly
• Something for the Sweeper by Norbert Davis
• I Feel Bad Killing You by Leigh Brackett
• Don’t Look Behind You by Fredric Brown
• Death Comes Gift-Wrapped by William P. McGivern
• Murder for Money by John D. MacDonald
• Cigarette Girl by James M. Cain
• Guilt-Edged Blonde by Ross Macdonald
• The Gesture by Gil Brewer
• The Plunge by David Goodis
• Tomorrow I Die by Mickey Spillane
• Never Shake a Family Tree by Donald E. Westlake
• Somebody Cares by Talmage Powell
• The Granny Woman by Dorothy B. Hughes
• Wanted - Dead and Alive by Stephen Marlowe
• The Double Take by Richard S. Prather
• The Real Shape of the Coast by John Lutz
• Dead Men Don’t Dream by Evan Hunter
• The Used by Loren D. Estleman
• Busted Blossoms by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• The Kerman Kill by William Campbell Gault
• Deceptions by Marcia Muller
• The Nickel Derby by Robert J. Randisi
• The Reason Why by Ed Gorman
• No Comment by John Jakes
• How Would You Like It? by Lawrence Block
• Grace Notes by Sara Paretsky
• One Night at Dolores Park by Bill Pronzini
• Dead Drunk by Lia Matera
• Kaddish for the Kid by Max Allan Collins
• Lost and Found by Benjamin M. Schutz