From The Hardboiled Dicks
Tucked away in the back pages of Ron Goulart’s classic collection of detective fiction from the pulps, The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), is a short list of hard-boiled writers worth he considered worth investigating, along with a few suggested titles and even a cursory overview. Hardly definitive or essential, but it is interesting. The authors he names are:
- W.T. Ballard
- Charles G. Booth
- Paul Cain
- Raymond Chandler
- George Harmon Coxe
- Carroll John Daly
- Norbert Davis
- Lester Dent
- Frank Gruber
- Dashiell Hammett
- Frederick Nebel
- Robert Reeves
- Richard Sale
- Joseph T. Shaw
- Raoul Whitfield
