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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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In the mid-nineteen-twenties, under the editor Joseph (Cap) Shaw, the magazine Black Mask turned to stories favoring character and atmosphere over intricate puzzle-plotting. Led by Dashiell Hammett, the monthly's roster of cynical, hardboiled innovators inaugurated a golden age of American crime fiction, spilling into the pages of Dime Detective, Gun Molls, Spicy Detective, and dozens of other inexpensive publications. This huge collection of stories (plus two ...

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