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Old 09-30-10, 12:44 PM
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With Hard Case Crime on hiatus, I thought it'd be helpful to have a thread on HCC-style books from other publishers.

This just showed up in my Amazon recommendations:



I have the previous volumes, and they are awesome. If you search the Kindle store, you'll find a couple dozen other Spillane novels, most of them long out of print.

Also just picked this up on the Kindle:



I'm about halfway through, and so far there hasn't been a bad story, though some of them contain a heavy dose of sexism.
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Good idea -- there are other options to get our hard-boiled fix.

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard released this monstrosity just last week:



Also, University of Chicago Press is in the middle of reprinting Richard Stark's (i.e., Donald Westlake) Parker books in very handsome trade editions -- highly recommended
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For fans of Donald Westlake and Lawrence Block (two staples in the HCC arsenal), later this month Subterranean Press will be releasing an omnibus with several of their very early 'sleaze' novels. Definitely a curiosity for fans of these guys -- I already have my copy pre-ordered. More info at the link.

http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Mer...roduct_Count=5

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Re: The Hard Case Crime Methadone Thread

Picked this up this weekend:



752 pages. $30. Features short stories written by:

James M Cain
Jim Thompson
Mickey Spillane
Gil Brewer
Dennis Lehane
Harlan Ellison
James Ellroy
James Crumley
Lawrence Block
Elmore Leonard
David Goodis et cetera, et cetera
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For those that enjoyed the 3 Quarry novels by Max Allan Collins as part of the HCC line, you will probably like to know that Perfect Crime Books has re-released the first 5 Quarry novels in trade paperback w/ an afterward from Collins. These novels have been long out-of-print, so nice to see another indie publisher bring back some forgotten classics.

http://www.perfectcrimebooks.com/maxallancollins.html
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Re: The Hard Case Crime Methadone Thread

A few recommended books in the HCC vein:

Andrew Vachss - The Getaway Man
http://www.vachss.com/getaway_man/

Sara Gran - Dope
http://www.saragran.com/dope

James Sallis - Drive
http://www.amazon.com/Drive-James-Sallis/dp/0156030322/
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I've read Drive by James Sallis. It is really good.

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