Paul Cain

• Apr-1994
• / Suspense
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The edgiest pulp novel ever written. Fast One was originally a collection of stories featuring the gambler/gunman Kells. This work has been occasionally republished. Raymond Chandler considered this novel the high point in the ultra hard-boiled mann...

• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction
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Seven brutally ingenius tales of murder passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled.

There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way fr...

• Sep-2003
• / General Fiction
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This novel is about Frank Grant, the seventh son and the eleventh child, of Michael and Mary Grant. He was just one short of a dozen. And to coin a phrase, his life was pretty much the same. "A day late and a dollar short" Being born four years prior...

• Apr-2006
• / Mystery
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For the first time ever!-two hardboiled classics!-joined at last! First published in 1933, Fast One is the roughest novel of the Black Mask school-praised by Chandler!-hailed by Captain Shaw! A searing tale of underworld Los Angeles, where the only c...

• Dec-2009
• / Suspense
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Star Detective - 04/36 - Published by Western Fiction Publishing Co. and Martin Goodman. SOCKDOLAGER by Paul Cain Out on the coast a big dick busts into a new racket and cracks a lot of local murders wide open! WHISPERING DEATH by William Edward Haye...

• Mar-2012
• / Suspense
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This collection features the novel Fast One and the complete short fiction written by Paul Cain for Black Mask and other pulps. This is the first time that many of them have been collected in book format. Lynn Myers and Max Alan Collins have writt...

• Aug-2013
• / Mystery
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A brilliant retired judge takes it upon himself to outwit a gang of thieves A beautiful woman is driving down a lonely stretch of Long Island highway when the car beside her opens fire. The bullets shred her car but leave her unharmed, and she mak...

• Dec-2013
• / Mystery
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Fifteen stories and one novel -- hard-boiled classics by an undisputed master Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain’s stories are classics of his genre...

• Jan-2024
• / Thriller
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Dive into the seedy underbelly of hardboiled crime fiction with Lead Party: The Complete Fiction Works of Paul Cain. This collection unearths 20 gripping stories, featuring all 18 tales from Black Mask that formed the foundation of his acclaimed ...