All the suspense, shocks, kicks, and titilation of yesterday's pulp magazines returns with a vengeance in these pages. Action-packed stories featuring hit men, underworld bosses, rogue cops, private dicks, and shady ladies are assembled here, written by such renegade authors as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ed McBain, Jim Thompson, James Ellroy, Robert Bellum, and Ed Gorman.

Contents:

• Too Many Have Lived (1932) by Dashiell Hammett
• Flight to Nowhere (1955) by Charles Williams
• Black (1932) by Paul Cain
• Finders Killers! (1953) by John D. MacDonald
• Murder’s Mandate (1945) by W. T. Ballard
• Cigarette Girl (1953) by James M. Cain
• The Getaway (1976) by Gil Brewer
• Preview of Murder (1949) by Robert Leslie Bellem
• Forever After (1960) by Jim Thompson
• The Bloody Tide (1950) by Day Keene
• Death Comes Gift-Wrapped (1948) by William P. McGivern
• The Girl Behind the Hedge (1953) by Mickey Spillane
• Enter Scarface (1930) by Armitage Trail
• A Candle for the Bag Lady (1977) by Lawrence Block
• Black Pudding (1953) by David Goodis
• A Matter of Principal (1989) by Max Allan Collins
• Citizen’s Arrest (1966) by Charles Willeford
• The Sleeping Dog (1965) by Ross Macdonald
• The Wench Is Dead (1953) by Fredric Brown
• So Dark for April (1953) by Howard Browne, writing as John Evans
• We Are All Dead (1955) by Bruno Fischer
• Death Is a Vampire (1944) by Robert Bloch
• Divide and Conquer (1957) by Jack Ritchie
• A Real Nice Guy (1980) by William F. Nolan
• Stacked Deck (1987) by Bill Pronzini
• So Young, So Fair, So Dead (1973) by John Lutz
• Effective Medicine (1954) by B. Traven
• Killing Bernstein (1976) by Harlan Ellison
• The Second Coming (1966) by Joe Gores
• Hibiscus and Homicide (1947) by William Campbell Gault
• Hell on Wheels (1996) by Thomas S. Roche
• Ordo (1977) by Donald E. Westlake