My Bookshelf The Hardboiled Dicks, edited by Ron Goulart An absolute essential for anyone who loves this stuff, Ron Goulart's 1965 The Hardboiled Dicks (my 1967 paperback reprint is the one pictured above) was one of the first collections of hard-boiled detective fiction from the thirties and forties crime and detective pulps, preceded by only … Continue reading My Bookshelf: The Hardboiled Dicks
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My Bookshelf: The Hard-Boiled Omnibus by Joseph T. “Cap” Shaw
My Bookshelf The Hard-Boiled Omnibus: Early Stories from Black Mask, edited by Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw Is there a more pivotal collection of stories from Black Mask than The Hard-Boiled Omnibus? Published by Simon and Schuster in 1946, this almost mythical hardcover featured fifteen stories selected by editor Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw (1874-1952), who had … Continue reading My Bookshelf: The Hard-Boiled Omnibus by Joseph T. “Cap” Shaw
Crime Smashers
"Crime Can't Pay -- In Any Way!" --the Crime Smashers tagline A short-lived comic book anthology series from Trojan, Crime Smashers reprinted four of the most popular comic stories once found in the pages of parent corporation Culture Publications' pulp magazines (including Hollywood Detective and Spicy Detective), nestled between the prose short stories and novellas. … Continue reading Crime Smashers
My Bookshelf: Noir: The Illustrated Crime Fiction Quarterly
My Bookshelf Noir: The Illustrated Crime Fiction Quarterly Edited by Christopher Mills A year after his ambitious one-shot anthology The Detectives, editor Christopher Mills let fly with the even more ambitious Noir: The Illustrated Crime Fiction Quarterly, an attempt to re-create The Detectives on a regular basis. It never quite caught on, lasting a mere three … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Noir: The Illustrated Crime Fiction Quarterly
My Bookshelf: The Detectives
My Bookshelf The Detectives (April 1993, Alpha Productions) A classic one-shot comic book anthology of comic book private eyes, edited and designed by Christopher Mills, "celebrating seventy years of the American private eye." A great idea, and groundbreaking for 1993, this 32-page comic book was handsomely produced, and simply an amazing collection, with both original and … Continue reading My Bookshelf: The Detectives
Kraft Mystery Theatre & Kraft Suspense Theatre
Television Anthology Series (1958-63, NBC) Originally called Kraft Television Theatre (which had started way back in 1947), in April 1958 it was revamped as KRAFT MYSTERY THEATRE, when the focus shifted to crime. Alex March, one of the most acclaimed anthology directors, produced the series. It featured original dramas, for the most part, with many … Continue reading Kraft Mystery Theatre & Kraft Suspense Theatre
Fallen Angels
(1993-95, Showtime) FALLEN ANGELS was a crime television anthology that aired on the American network, Showtime, in the 1990's. Not all the episodes featured private eyes, or even detectives, per se, but who cares? It paired some great hard-boiled and noir short stories by some of the genre's masters (you know, hacks like Raymond Chandler, … Continue reading Fallen Angels
Murder in the Library: The Akashic Noir Series
It's a Noir World, After All Ex-punk rocker Johnny Temple's feisty and defiantly political little imprint struck gold of the blackest hue with this string of regionalized collections of noir. Starting way back in 2004 with the publication of Brooklyn Noir (edited by Pete Hamill), the series has become a crime fiction juggernaut, spreading its … Continue reading Murder in the Library: The Akashic Noir Series
Murder in the Library: The Best American Mystery Stories/The Best American Mystery & Suspense
A perennial under the Thrilling Detective Christmas tree every year, The Best American Mystery Stories was an annual anthology of mystery stories published in United States magazines and anthologies that came out every autumn, edited by Otto Penzler (with Michele Slung riding shotgun) and a co-editor who changed every year. It established itself as arguably the premier annual … Continue reading Murder in the Library: The Best American Mystery Stories/The Best American Mystery & Suspense