Best hardboiled fiction anthologies
Discover the best hardboiled fiction anthologies featuring gripping crime tales, gritty detectives, and noir classics. Perfect for fans of intense, action-packed mystery stories.
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Dark Crimes
by Edward Gorman
Offers works by a variety of the best suspense authors and encompasses the breadth of modern suspense fiction, especially its darker and more ominous side, in works by Marcia Muller, Max Allen Collins, Robert Bloch, and others
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Dark Crimes 2
by Edward Gorman
Offers works by a variety of the best suspense authors and encompasses the breadth of modern suspense fiction, especially its darker and more ominous side, in works by Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Bill Pronzini, John Lutz, Rex Miller, and John D. MacDona
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The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction
by Edward Gorman
Gathers stories by Robert Block, Lawrence Block, Max Collins, Joe Gores, Ed McBain, Mickey Spillane, Donald Westlake, and Bill Pronzini
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The Black Mask Boys
by William F. Nolan
A collection of vintage detective fiction gives tribute to many of the masters in the hard-boiled school of detective fiction and the legacy of the "Black Mask," the magazine that made them famous
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Hard-boiled
by Bill Pronzini
This anthology collects together short stories from the crime and detective genres.
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The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
by Maxim Jakubowski
Offers a collection of detective stories by Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and other writers
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The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action
by Maxim Jakubowski
Packed solid with seven decades of pulp action and peopled by shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked cops, and gruff private eyes, this new collection of hard-boiled tales includes classics by such masters of the craft as Dashiell Hammett, Robert Leslie Bellem, Cornell Woolrich, and Erle Stanley Gardner, as well as some of the best modern crime fiction to be published by postwar giants like John D. MacDonald, Ross McDonald, Ed McBain, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, and James Ellroy.
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Private Eyes
by Mickey Spillane
For over 50 years no one has come close to matching mystery author Mickey Spillane's tough-guy voice or Mike Hammer's knack for getting into trouble. Now, today's premier writers of private eye fiction put a spin on Spillane's classic style in 16 original stories by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Stuart Kaminsky, Jeremiah Healy, Robert J. Randisi, Bill Pronzini, James L. Taylor, Rex Miller, Edward D. Hoch, Ted Fitzgerald, Barbara D'Amato, William L. DeAndrea, Arthur Winfield Knight, Matthew Clemens, and Martin Meyers.
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Fallen Angels
by Raymond Chandler
Includes six short stories written by masters of mystery and crime fiction, along with a screen adaptation of each story
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Pure Pulp
by Edward Gorman
Celebrates American pulp fiction in this volume which anthologizes 1920s and 1930s innovators such as John Jakes and Robert Bloch alongside later masters of the form, including Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, and Donald Westlake
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Murder Is My Business
by Mickey Spillane
Seventeen original short mysteries include Lawrence Block's "Keller on Horseback," Andrew Greeley's "The Bishop and the Hit Man," Mickey Spillane's "Everybody's Watching Me," and others. Reprint. AB.