by Otto Penzler
About Kid Deth” by Raoul Whitfield from Black Mask Magazine, February 1931. Copyright © 1931 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1948 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@ comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘The Perfect Crime” by C. S. Montayne from Black Mask Magazine, July 1920. Copyright © 1920 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1937 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@ comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘You’ll Die Laughing” by Norbert Davis from Black Mask Magazine, November 1940. Copyright © 1940 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1957 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
The Crimes of Richmond City” by Frederick Nebel. Copyright © 2006 by Keith Alan Deutsch. Originally published in Black Mask Magazine as “Raw Law” (September 1928); “Dog Eat Dog” (October 1928); “Law Laughs Last” (November 1928); “Law Without Law” (April 1929); “Graft” (May 1929). Copyright © 1928 and 1929 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; copyright © renewed 1945 and 1946 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Angel Face” by Cornell Woolrich from Black Mask Magazine, October 1937. Copyright © 1937 by Cornell Woolrich; renewed 1964 by Claire Woolrich Memorial Scholarship Fund. Reprinted by permission of JP Morgan Chase Bank as Trustee for the Claire Woolrich Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Chosen to Die” by Leslie T. White from Dime Detective, December 1,1934. Copyright © 1934 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1962 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@ comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘A Pinch of Snuff’ by Eric Taylor from Black Mask Magazine, June 1929. Copyright © 1929 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1957 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@ comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Killer in the Rain” by Raymond Chandler from Black Mask Magazine, January 1935. Coypright © 1935 by Raymond Chandler; renewed 1963. Reprinted by kind permission of the Estate of Raymond Chandler.
‘A Shock for the Countess” by C. S. Montayne form Black Mask Magazine, March 15, 1923. Copyright © 1923 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1951 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘The Corpse in the Crystal” by D. B. McCandless from Detective Fiction Weekly, 1937. Copyright © 1937 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1965 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘He Got What He Asked For” by D. B. McCandless from Detective Fiction Weekly, January 16, 1937. Copyright © 1937 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1965 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Dance Macabre” by Robert Reeves from Black Mask Magazine, April 1941. Copyright © 1941 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1969 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@ comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘The Girl with the Silver Eyes” by Dashiell Hammett from Black Mask Magazine, June 1924. Copyright © 1924 by Dashiell Hammett; renewed 1952 by Dashiell Hammett. Reprinted by permission of the Literary Property Trust of Dashiell Hammett. Reprinted in The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett, Copyright © 1974 by Lillian Hellman, Executrix of the Estate of Dashiell Hammett. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
‘The Duchess Pulls a Fast One” by Whitman Chambers from Detective Fiction Weekly, September 19,1936. Copyright© 1936 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1964 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Mansion of Death” by Roger Torrey from Detective Fiction Weekly, May 25,1940. Copyright © 1940 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1968 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@ comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Concealed Weapon” by Roger Torrey from Black Mask Magazine, December 1938. Copyright © 1938 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1966 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Three Wise Men of Babylon” by Richard Sale from Detective Fiction Weekly, April 1, 1939. Copyright © 1939 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1967 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon” by Eugene Thomas from Detective Fiction Weekly, February 1, 1936. Copyright © 1936 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1964 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Brother Murder” by T. T. Flynn from Detective Fiction Weekly, December 2,1939. Copyright © 1938 by Pro-Distributors, Inc.; renewed 1967 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch (keithdeutsch@ comcast.net; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
‘Kindly Omit Flowers” by Stewart Sterling from Black Mask Magazine, March 1942. Copyright © 1942 by Pro-Distributors, Incorporated; renewed 1970 by Popular Publications, Inc. Reprinted by special arrangement with Keith Alan Deutsch ([email protected]; www.blackmaskmagazine.com) proprietor and conservator of the respective copyrights, and successor-in-interest to Popular Publications, Inc.
A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL,
NOVEMBER 2007
Compilation copyright © 2007 by Otto Penzler, LLC
Foreword copyright © 2006, 2007 by Otto Penzler, LLC
Introduction from Pulp Fiction: The Crimefighters copyright © 2006 by Harlan Coben
Introduction from Pulp Fiction: The Villains copyright © 2007 Harlan Ellison
Introduction from Pulp Fiction: The Dames copyright © 2007 by Laura Lippman
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Crime/Black Lizard and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Black Lizard big book of pulps / edited by Otto Penzler.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-49416-0
1. Crime—Fiction. 2. Noir fiction, American. I. Penzler, Otto.
PS648.C7B585 2007
813.087208—dc22
2007021103
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