20 stories of private eyes, law officers and the criminal fraternity from writers old and new.

Contents:

• PART ONE: HARDBOILED DICKS: Cases of the Private Eyes
  • Torch Number by James Ellroy
  • The Egyptian Lure by Carroll John Daly
  • Arson Plus [as by Peter Collinson; The Continental Op] by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Man Who Liked Dogs [Carmady] by Raymond Chandler
  • Dead Man’s Head by Robert Leslie Bellem
  • The Singing Pigeon [“The Imaginary Blonde”] by Ross Macdonald
• PART TWO: COPS AND G-MEN: Strories of the Law Officers
  • The Hunting of Hemingway [Nick & Dave Glennan] by MacKinlay Kantor
  • Dead on Her Feet by Cornell Woolrich
  • Nice Work [Lemmy Caution] by Peter Cheyney
  • The Lady Says Die [“The Girl Behind the Hedge”] by Mickey Spillane
  • Accident Report [as by Richard Marsten] by Ed McBain
  • Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
• PART THREE: THE HOODS: Tales of the Criminal Fraternity
  • Traveling Light by W.R. Burnett
  • Pastorale by James M. Cain
  • The Deadly Circle [as by Charles J. Sullivan] by Samuel Fuller
  • Get a Load of This by James Hadley Chase
  • It’s a Wise Cadaver by David Goodis
  • The Frightening Frammis [Mitch Allison] by Jim Thompson
  • The Fifth Quarter [as by John Swithen] by Stephen King
  • The Watch [from Pulp Fiction] by Quentin Tarantino