Hard Case Crime, Part 4
08-07-15, 12:29 PM
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Here's an interesting development. Looks like HCC has picked up the rights to more books in the Quarry series. Here are the covers. I also noticed that Amazon is currently selling a few of these at about half price.
- QUARRY comes to Cinemax in Fall 2015
- The original Quarry novels return to bookstores for the first time in 30 years
- Featuring cover paintings by the legendary Robert McGinnis
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08-07-15, 12:34 PM
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And then in March 2016, a new Ken Bruen and Jason Starr! PIMP!
- First publication ever!
- Tenth anniversary of Bruen and Starr’s first collaboration, and first new book in the Max Fisher series since 2008
- Two of the hottest authors in crime fiction today, Bruen and Starr have been nominated for or won almost every award in the field
08-08-15, 02:49 PM
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Great news all around on the HCC front. I already have the Quarry books from another publisher, but will pick these up for the covert art alone. And yeah, 4 of the 5 are half off on Amazon. 
10-16-15, 12:36 PM
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There have been many editions of JOYLAND, a lot of them from Titan/HCC. It's kind of an odd situation. There was the limited Titan hardcover, in three incarnations, outlined here:
There was the trade HCC paperback:
And there's now the Illustrated Edition hardcover from apparently both Titan/HCC and Cemetery Dance, as outlined here!
Which makes for a total of SEVEN editions, by my count.
There was the trade HCC paperback:
And there's now the Illustrated Edition hardcover from apparently both Titan/HCC and Cemetery Dance, as outlined here!
Which makes for a total of SEVEN editions, by my count.
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12-16-15, 08:51 PM
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For those of you with a Half Price Book store near you mine had big stacks of the Michael Crichton writing as John Lange all 5 or 6 of them, picked up the three I didn't have. They also had Joyland and False Negative by Joseph Koenig all trade paperback editions. $4.99 each, worth a look.
12-31-15, 01:04 PM
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A bunch of new developments at the Hard Case Crime site! Here are the upcoming books, rounding out 2016:
July 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
July 2016
October 2016
November 2016
December 2016
01-19-16, 11:46 AM
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Just read about this "great, unsung crime novel" and would love to see it in the Hard Case lineup. Check out the article at Literary Hub.
From Barry Gifford's intro to the UK edition:
"When I was the editor of Black Lizard Books between 1984 and 1989, the one novel I wanted most to publish in the series was Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel. The book was brought to my attention by Edward Gorman and Max Collins, both of whom had written admiringly about it. I read it and was floored. Black Wings was an astonishingly well-written literary novel that just happened to be about (or roundabout) a crime. It was a perfect fit for what the publisher and I were doing at Black Lizard, putting out books that were psychologically provocative, on the edge, and, more often than not, over the edge. Our authors—among them Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, David Goodis—were uncompromising, cruel, crazy, sexy, and daring. Chaze’s novel, published originally in 1954 and since then widely available only in French translation, was to be a kind of crowning achievement for Black Lizard."
From Barry Gifford's intro to the UK edition:
"When I was the editor of Black Lizard Books between 1984 and 1989, the one novel I wanted most to publish in the series was Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel. The book was brought to my attention by Edward Gorman and Max Collins, both of whom had written admiringly about it. I read it and was floored. Black Wings was an astonishingly well-written literary novel that just happened to be about (or roundabout) a crime. It was a perfect fit for what the publisher and I were doing at Black Lizard, putting out books that were psychologically provocative, on the edge, and, more often than not, over the edge. Our authors—among them Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, David Goodis—were uncompromising, cruel, crazy, sexy, and daring. Chaze’s novel, published originally in 1954 and since then widely available only in French translation, was to be a kind of crowning achievement for Black Lizard."
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03-05-16, 02:34 PM
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FYI Lawrence Block just tweeted that the Kindle version of The Girl With The Deep Blue Eyes is on sale for $4.99 until Monday when it bumps back up to $9.99.
(I'm pretty much an ebook guy these days *except* for HCC titles because, oh, those great covers. Plus analog reading seems more appropriate for these kind of books.
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(I'm pretty much an ebook guy these days *except* for HCC titles because, oh, those great covers. Plus analog reading seems more appropriate for these kind of books.
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04-19-16, 03:32 PM
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Huh! That July cover above changed, and now it's a May release. Charles Ardai wrote the novelization for "The Nice Guys." That's awesome! Hopefully he can chime in here at some point about that. A marriage made in crime heaven.
SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK.
NOT THESE GUYS.
Holland March is a private eye with a defective nose and a broken arm. Jackson Healy is the tough guy who put him in a cast. Not the two most likely men to team up to hunt for a missing girl, or look into the suspicious death of a beautiful porn star, or go up against a conspiracy of the rich and powerful that stretches from Detroit to D.C. Hell, they’re not the most likely pair to team up to do anything. But there you go. And if they somehow survive this case, they might just find they like each other.
But let’s be honest. They probably won’t survive it.
SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK.
NOT THESE GUYS.
Holland March is a private eye with a defective nose and a broken arm. Jackson Healy is the tough guy who put him in a cast. Not the two most likely men to team up to hunt for a missing girl, or look into the suspicious death of a beautiful porn star, or go up against a conspiracy of the rich and powerful that stretches from Detroit to D.C. Hell, they’re not the most likely pair to team up to do anything. But there you go. And if they somehow survive this case, they might just find they like each other.
But let’s be honest. They probably won’t survive it.
- First publication ever!
- Based on the major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe
04-19-16, 03:34 PM
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Plus, this was added to the mix for December...
THE LOST DETECTIVE NOVEL
BY THE CREATOR OF PERRY MASON!
At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels published between 1939 and 1970—and one that’s never been published until now.
Lost for more than 75 years, THE KNIFE SLIPPED was meant to be the second book in the series but got shelved when Gardner’s publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool’s tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities —however shocking for 1939—shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists.
Donald Lam has never been cooler—not even when played by Frank Sinatra on the U.S. Steel Hour of Mystery in 1946. Bertha Cool has never been tougher. And Erle Stanley Gardner has never been better.
THE LOST DETECTIVE NOVEL
BY THE CREATOR OF PERRY MASON!
At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels published between 1939 and 1970—and one that’s never been published until now.
Lost for more than 75 years, THE KNIFE SLIPPED was meant to be the second book in the series but got shelved when Gardner’s publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool’s tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities —however shocking for 1939—shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists.
Donald Lam has never been cooler—not even when played by Frank Sinatra on the U.S. Steel Hour of Mystery in 1946. Bertha Cool has never been tougher. And Erle Stanley Gardner has never been better.
05-16-16, 11:04 AM
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This one is in stores now. Second movie tie-in (right?), and like A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (S01), this one (S07) is also mass market paperback, making me wish that all these late HCCs were in this format. Ah well, I'm just happy the line is still churning out great stuff.
05-22-16, 08:52 AM
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http://www.cinemax.com/quarry/
So I guess they're waiting for it to air before they publish them?
This one is in stores now. Second movie tie-in (right?), and like A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (S01), this one (S07) is also mass market paperback, making me wish that all these late HCCs were in this format. Ah well, I'm just happy the line is still churning out great stuff.
05-24-16, 12:00 PM
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Thanks for the heads up on the format. Up thread there was news (speculation?) that the books would be rereleased as mass markets after initial runs as trade paperbacks. Is that no longer the case? I hope not. My OCD is put to the test with two different sizes of HCC books on my shelf.
07-11-16, 07:58 PM
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Coming February 2017 ...
OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE AND 8-YEAR-OLD BOYS
Whether it’s a Middle East oil crisis in the 1970s or the London Blitz during WWII, world events have a way of breeding trouble on the home front, too. That’s how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N. Ambassador, wound up kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and how Robby Burnes, orphaned son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the snowy streets of New York City. But as Robby’s famous namesake taught us, the best laid plans don’t always work out as intended. Especially not when you’re a kidnapper in the hands of Gregory Mcdonald.
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF FLETCH—A MASTER CLASS ON THE ART OF THE SNATCH!
The comic genius behind the Fletch and Flynn books, Gregory Mcdonald also penned the two brilliant kidnapping novels appearing here for the first time in three decades—and the first time ever in a single volume. Two precocious eight-year-old boys…two teams of kidnappers, in way over their heads…two opportunities for mayhem, danger, and the trenchant social satire no crime writer has ever delivered like Mcdonald.
OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE AND 8-YEAR-OLD BOYS
Whether it’s a Middle East oil crisis in the 1970s or the London Blitz during WWII, world events have a way of breeding trouble on the home front, too. That’s how Toby Rinaldi, son of a U.N. Ambassador, wound up kidnapped on his way to a California amusement park, and how Robby Burnes, orphaned son of British nobility, wound up snatched on the snowy streets of New York City. But as Robby’s famous namesake taught us, the best laid plans don’t always work out as intended. Especially not when you’re a kidnapper in the hands of Gregory Mcdonald.
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF FLETCH—A MASTER CLASS ON THE ART OF THE SNATCH!
The comic genius behind the Fletch and Flynn books, Gregory Mcdonald also penned the two brilliant kidnapping novels appearing here for the first time in three decades—and the first time ever in a single volume. Two precocious eight-year-old boys…two teams of kidnappers, in way over their heads…two opportunities for mayhem, danger, and the trenchant social satire no crime writer has ever delivered like Mcdonald.
- First publication in three decades, and first ever in a single edition!
- Gregory Mcdonald is the only author ever to win the Edgar Award twice in a row for two novels in a single series
07-14-16, 12:03 PM
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Thanks for the heads up on the format. Up thread there was news (speculation?) that the books would be rereleased as mass markets after initial runs as trade paperbacks. Is that no longer the case? I hope not. My OCD is put to the test with two different sizes of HCC books on my shelf.
"No, we don't plan to re-release the trade PBs or hardcovers as MMPBs. The distribution channels for MMPBs just are too inhospitable these days to anything other than big bestsellers. So if we have a Stephen King novel, fine, we'll do that one in every format there is (and we did do an MMPB edition of JOYLAND). But even the experiment we did of releasing our last Westlake title in MMPB didn't really work very well, and our attempt to release the critically acclaimed first novel THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH in three separate MMPB volumes was pretty much a disaster. So, no—hardcovers will come out the following year in trade PB, but we have no current plans to do more MMPBs, unless they're the sort of thing that still sells well in supermarkets and drugstores and airports, such as movie or TV tie-in editions."
07-15-16, 08:55 AM
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^ That's helpful. Thanks for sharing. I would periodically check Amazon to see if MMP versions of the books were available and that explains why I only saw them for the King book and the Block movie tie-in.
Funny he mentions the experiment with The Twenty-Year Death (great book, btw). I purchased the HC when it came out and later scooped up the MMPs at a used bookstore after seeing they had 3 different versions of cover art which I thought was cool.
Funny he mentions the experiment with The Twenty-Year Death (great book, btw). I purchased the HC when it came out and later scooped up the MMPs at a used bookstore after seeing they had 3 different versions of cover art which I thought was cool.
07-17-16, 09:22 AM
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I contacted Charles Ardai with this question, and he shed some light on the situation:
"No, we don't plan to re-release the trade PBs or hardcovers as MMPBs. The distribution channels for MMPBs just are too inhospitable these days to anything other than big bestsellers. So if we have a Stephen King novel, fine, we'll do that one in every format there is (and we did do an MMPB edition of JOYLAND). But even the experiment we did of releasing our last Westlake title in MMPB didn't really work very well, and our attempt to release the critically acclaimed first novel THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH in three separate MMPB volumes was pretty much a disaster. So, no—hardcovers will come out the following year in trade PB, but we have no current plans to do more MMPBs, unless they're the sort of thing that still sells well in supermarkets and drugstores and airports, such as movie or TV tie-in editions."
"No, we don't plan to re-release the trade PBs or hardcovers as MMPBs. The distribution channels for MMPBs just are too inhospitable these days to anything other than big bestsellers. So if we have a Stephen King novel, fine, we'll do that one in every format there is (and we did do an MMPB edition of JOYLAND). But even the experiment we did of releasing our last Westlake title in MMPB didn't really work very well, and our attempt to release the critically acclaimed first novel THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH in three separate MMPB volumes was pretty much a disaster. So, no—hardcovers will come out the following year in trade PB, but we have no current plans to do more MMPBs, unless they're the sort of thing that still sells well in supermarkets and drugstores and airports, such as movie or TV tie-in editions."
10-26-16, 02:14 PM
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Coming June 2017 ...
A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!
Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a British businessman seeking to destroy Hong Kong after being kicked out when the island was returned to Chinese sovereignty—had all the action and excitement, the danger and the sex appeal, of a classic Bond film—but for whatever reason, the Bond folks decided not to use it. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote a novel based on the premise instead—but then never published the novel either!
Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel, FOREVER AND A DEATH, its first publication ever, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond movie that might have been.
A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!
Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a British businessman seeking to destroy Hong Kong after being kicked out when the island was returned to Chinese sovereignty—had all the action and excitement, the danger and the sex appeal, of a classic Bond film—but for whatever reason, the Bond folks decided not to use it. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote a novel based on the premise instead—but then never published the novel either!
Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel, FOREVER AND A DEATH, its first publication ever, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond movie that might have been.
- First publication ever!
- A lost novel by MWA Grand Master Donald E. Westlake
- Inspired by Westlake’s treatment for a James Bond movie that never got filmed