This huge new collection offers the finest entertainment available, packed with the best names in crime fiction- all writers who got their starts in the pulp magazines of yesterday.

Contents:

• Introduction by Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg
• Easy Money by Evan Hunter
• The Pickpocket by Mickey Spillane
• In a Small Motel by John D. MacDonald
• Sudden, Sudden Death by Talmage Powell
• An Empty Threat by Donald E. Westlake
• Package Deal by Lawrence Block
• All the Lonely People [Sharon McCone] by Marcia Muller
• Doing Colfax by Ed Bryant
• That Stranger, My Son by C. B. Gilford
• Terrorists by Stephen Marlowe
• Hot Snow by Vin Packer
• I'm a Dirty Girl by Marthayn Pelegrimas
• The Plunge by David Goodis
• The Black and White Blues by Dorothy B. Hughes
• High Stakes by John Lutz
• Cop Without a Shield by Robert J. Randisi
• Lynching in Mixville by L. J. Washburn
• Murder in Two Parts by Norbert Davis
• Down in the Valley by James Reasoner
• The Badger Game by Jay Flynn
• Don't Twist My Arm by Jack Ritchie
• The Guilty Party [Shell Scott] by Richard S. Prather
• We Were Picked As the Odd Ones by Wade Miller
• Nothing to Worry About by Day Keene
• Cry Silence by Fredric Brown
• Tick, Tock by Donald Wandrei
• Conspiracy by William Campbell Gault
• Say It With Flowers [John J. Malone] by Craig Rice
• Guilt by John Jakes
• Bothered by Gil Brewer
• Game by Herbert D. Kastle
• I Feel Bad Killing You by Leigh Brackett
• Decision by Helen Nielsen
• Horn Man by Clark Howard
• The Frigid Flame by Richard Matheson

Edited by: Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, Bill Pronzini