RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: Anthologies

The contents of some of the anthologies of hardboiled fiction.

The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction

Gorman, Edward (editor). (Black Lizard, 1987)

• "The Used," Loren D. Estleman
• "A Cold Foggy Day," Bill Pronzini
• "Swamp Search," Harry Whittington
• "Take Care of Yourself," Wiliam Campbell Gault
• "A Matter of Ethics," Robert J. Randisi
• "Tough," John Lutz
• "This World, Then the Fireworks," Jim Thompson
• "Soft Monkey," Harlan Ellison
• "Yellow Gal," Dennis Lynds
• "Scrap," Max Allan Collins
• "Set 'Em Up, Joe," Barbara Beman
• "Shut the Final Door," Joe L. Hensley
• "Death and the Dancing Shadow," James Reasoner
• "A Killer in the Dark," Robert Edmond Alter
• "Perchance to Dream," Michael Seidman
• "Horn Man," Clark Howard
• "Shooting Match," Wayne Dundee
• "The Pit ," Joe R. Lansdale
• "Turn Away," Edward Gorman
• "The Second Coming," Joe Gores

Hard-Boiled

Pronzini, Bill and Jack Adrian (editors). (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)

• "The Scorched Face," Dashiell Hammett
• "Round Trip," W.R. Burnett
• "Mistral," Raoul Whitfield
• "Backwash," Frederick Nebel
• "Trouble-Chaser," Paul Cain
• "Fruit Tramp," Daniel Mainwaring
• "Brush Fire," James M. Cain
• "Human Interest Stuff," Brett Halliday
• "Waiting for Rusty," William Cole
• "I'll be Waiting," Raymond Chandler
• "Marijana and a Pistol," Chester Himes
• "Who Said I Was Dead?," Norbert Davis
• "Nor Iron Bars," John D. MacDonald
• "Dock Walloper," Benjamin Appel
• "Three-Ten to Yuma," Elmore Leonard
• "The Bob--Soxer," Jonathan Craig
• "Black Pudding," David Goodis
• "Guilt-Edged Blonde," Ross Macdonald
• "Mama's Boy," David Alexander
• "The Screen Test of Mike Hammer," Mickey Spillane
• "Home," Gil Brewer
• "So Pale, So Cold, So Fair," Leigh Brackett
• "A Piece of Ground," Helen Nielsen
• "The Merry, Merry Christmas," Evan Hunter
• "Forever After," Jim Thompson
• "The Old Pro," H.A. DeRosso
• "The Saturday Night Deaths," Michael Kerr
• "Graveyard Shift," James M. Reasoner
• "Deadhead Coming Down," Margaret Maron
• "To Florida," Robert Sampson
• "It's a Hard World," Andrew Vachss
• "Junior Jackson's Parable," James Hannah
• "Bonding," Faye Kellerman
• "Gravy Train," James Ellroy
• "Batman's Helpers," Lawrence Block
• "The Long Silence After," Ed Gorman

The Hard-Boiled Detective: Sories from Black Mask Magazine 1920 - 1951

Ruhm, Herbert (editor). (Vintage, 1977)

• "The False Burton Combs," Carroll John Daly
• "The Road Home," Peter Collinson (Dashiell Hammett)
• "The Gutting of Couffignal," Dashiell Hammett
• "Kansas City Flash," Norbert Davis
• "Take It and Like It," Frederick Nebel
• "Goldfish," Raymond Chandler
• "Angelfish," Lester Dent
• "Leg Man," Erle Stanley Gardner
• "Once Around the Clock," George Harmon Coxe
• "The Turkey Buzzard Blues," Merle Constiner
• "It's So Peaceful in the Country," William Brandon
• "Killer Come Home," Curt Hamlin
• "Big-Time Operator," Paul W. Fairman
• "Five O'Clock Menace," Bruno Fischer

Hard-Boiled Detectives: 23 Great Stories from Dime Detective Magazine

Weinberg, Robert, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg (editors). (Gramercy, 1992)

• "Hell's Pay Check," Frederick Nebel
• "The Crime Machine," Carroll John Daly
• "The Hand of Horror," Erle Stanley Gardner
• "Nine Parts Devil," Max Brand
• "A Burial is Arranged," John Lawrence
• "A Man's Last Hours," William E. Barrett
• "Something for the Sweeper," Norbert Davis
• "Footprints on a Brain," D.L. Champion
• "The Lady In the Lake," Raymond Chandler
• "Strangler's Kill," Merle Constiner
• "Ding Dong Belle," Hugh B. Cave
• "You Slay Me, Baby," Frederick C. Davis
• "Sleep No More My Lovely," G.T. Fleming-Roberts
• "I'll Slay You In My Dreams," Bruno Fischer
• "No Minimum for Murder," Julius Long
• "A Ghoul and His Money," C.M. Kornbluth
• "Cold Storage," Robert Turner
• "Death Comes Gift-Wrapped," William P. McGivern
• "A Dish of Homicide," Hank Searls
• "Safe as Any Sap," William Tenn
• "None But the Lethal Heart," William C. Gault
• "The Man from Limbo," John D. MacDonald
• "Murderer's Encore," Murray Leinster

The Hardboiled Dicks

Goulart, Ron (editor). (Sherbourne Press, 1965; Pocket, 1967)

• "Don't Give Your Right Name," Norbert Davis
• "The Saint in Silver," John K. Butler
• "Winter Kill," Frederick Nebel
• "China Man," Raoul Whitfield
• "Death on Eagle's Crag," Frank Gruber
• "A Nose for News," Richard Sale
• "Angelfish," Lester Dent
• "Bird in the Hand," Erle Stanley Gardner

The Hard-Boiled Omnibus

Shaw, Joseph T. (editor). (Simon and Schuster, 1946). A 1952 Pocket Books paperback, #875, omits the des Ormeaux, Coxe and Booth stories.

• "Sail," Lester Dent (October 1936)
• "Taking His Time," Reuben Jennings Shay (January 1931)
• "Death in the Pasig," Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield) (March 1936)
• "The Man Who Liked Dogs," Raymond Chandler (March 1936)
• "Fly Paper," Dashiell Hammett (August 1929)
• "Inside Job," Raoul Whitfield (February 1932)
• "Red Goose," Norbert Davis (February 1934)
• "Red 71," Paul Cain (Peter Ruric) (December 1932)
• "Red Man," Thomas Walsh (October 1934)
• "Kick-Back," Ed Lybeck (January 1932)
• "Clean Sweap," Roger Torrey (February 1934)
• "South Wind," Theodore Tinsley (November 1932)
• "The Devil Suit," J.J. des Ormeaux (July 1932)
• "Murder Mixup," George Harmon Coxe (May 1936)
• "Sister Act," Charles G. Booth (February 1933)

The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories

Pronzini, Bill and Martin H. Greenberg (editors). (London: Robinson, 1988)

• "Wrong Pigeon" [aka "The Pencil"] - Raymond Chandler (1971: Philip Marlowe)
• "Not My Corpse," Carrol John Daly (Race Williams)
• "Diamonds of Death," Robert Leslie Bellem (Dan Turner)
• "Before She Kills," Fredric Brown (1961: Ed and Am Hunter)
• "So Dark For April," Howard Browne (1953: Paul Pine)
• "Stolen Star," William Campbell Gault (1957: Joe Puma)
• "Guilt-Edged Blonde," Ross Macdonald (1953: Lew Archer)
• "Suicide is Scandalous," Henry Kane (1947: Peter Chambers)
• "Dead Giveaway," Richard S. Prather (1957: Shell Scott)
• "Surf," Joseph Hansen (1976: Dave Brandsetter)
• "A Reason To Die," Michael Collins (1985: Dan Fortune)
• "Death Flight," Ed McBain (1954: Milt Davis)
• "Wanted - Dead and Alive," Stephen Marlowe (1963: Chester Drum)
• "The Other Eye," Edward D. Hoch (1981: Al Darlan)
• "Busted Blossoms," Stuart M. Kaminsky (1986: Toby Peters)
• "Out of the Window," Lawrence Block (1977: Matt Scudder)
• "Ride The Lightning," John Lutz (1985: Alo Nudger)
• "She Didn"t Come Home," Sue Grafton (1986: Kinsey Millhone)
• "The Reason Why," Edward Gorman (1988: Jack Dwyer)
• "Iris," Stephen Greenleaf, (1984: John Marshall Tanner)
• "Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg," Bill Pronzini, (1985: Nameless Detective)
• "The Broken Men," Marcia Muller (1985: Sharon McCone)
• "Trouble in Paradise," Arthur Lyons (1985: Jacob Asch)
• "The Strawberry Teardrop," Max Allan Collins (1984: Nate Heller)
• "The Nickel Derby," Robert J. Randisi (1987: Henry Po)
• "Greektown," Loren D. Estleman (1983: Amos Walker)

The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction

Jakubowski, Maxim (editor).

• "Too Many Have Lived," Dashiell Hammett
• "Flight to Nowhere," Charles Williams
• "Black," Paul Cain
• "Finders Killers," John D. MacDonald
• "Murder's Mandate," W. T. Ballard
• "Cigarette Girl," James M. Cain
• "The Getaway," Gil Brewer
• "Preview of Murder," Robert Leslie Bellem
• "Forever After," Jim Thompson
• "The Bloody Tide," Day Keene
• "Death Comes Gift-Wrapped," William P. McGivern
• "The Girl Behind the Hedge," Mickey Spillane
• "Enter Scarface," Armitage Trail
• "A Candle for the Bag Lady," Lawrence Block
• "Black Pudding," David Goodis
• "A Matter of Principal," Max Allan Collins
• "Citizen's Arrest," Charles Willeford
• "Sleeping Dog," Ross Macdonald
• "The Wench is Dead," Fredric Brown
• "So Dark for April," Howard Browne
• "We Are All Dead," Bruno Fischer
• "Death is a Vampire," Robert Bloch
• "Divide and Conquer," Jack Ritchie
• "A Real Nice Guy," William F. Nolan
• "Stacked Deck," Bill Pronzini
• "So Young, So Fair, So Dead," John Lutz
• "Effective Medicine," Bruno Traven
• "Killing Bernstein," Harlan Ellison
• "The Second Coming," Joe Gores
• "Hibiscus and Homicide," William Campbell Gault
• "Hell On Wheels," Thomas S. Roche
• "Ordo," Donald Westlake

Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction

Gerald, Marc (editor) (New York: Pharos, 1992)

• Marc Gerald, "Memory and the Angels: An Introduction"
• Robert Bloch, "The Shambles of Ed Gein" (1960)
• Charles Burgess, "A Killer With Women" (1951)
• D. L. Champion, Madame Murder" (1954)
• Harlan Ellison, "Mystery Man Lucks and His Missing Bucks" (1956)
• Robert Faherty, "The Dancing Beauty and the Fatal Trap" (1949)
• Bruno Fischer, "The Footprint in the Snow" (1945)
• Leslie Ford, "The Scar Faced Fugitive and the Murdered Maid" (1941)
• Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Movie Murder" (1947)
• Brett Halliday, "Murder with Music" (1945)
• Dashiell Hammett, "Who Killed Bob Teal?" (1924)
• Nunnally Johnson, "A Scream in the Dark" (1925)
• Day Keene, "Strangled" (1951)
• Eleazar Lipsky, "Shield of the Innocent" (1951)
• Stuart Palmer, "Once Aboard the Lugger" (1952)
• Patrick Quentin, "The Last of Mrs Maybrick" (1943)
• Craig Rice, "Murder in Chicago" (1945)
• Jim Thompson, "Case of the Catalogue Clue" (1948)
• Lawrence Treat, "The Body in Sector R" (1945)
• S. S. Van Dine, "Germany"s Mistress of Crime" (1943)
• Lionel White, "Clue of the Poison Pen" (1942)
• Harry Whittington,"Invaders from the Sky" (1958).

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