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'Solo Sins' by Richard Vine is a new Hard Case Crime novel which takes us into the neo-decadent SoHo art world.
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Book Review: ‘Quarry,’ A Hard-boiled Crime Classic by Max Allan Collins
A reissue of the first book in an enduring hard-boiled series comes out to prep us for an upcoming Cinemax teleseries.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Thieves Fall Out,’ A Lost Pulp Novel by Gore Vidal
A long-lost slice of pulp by this literary figure gets resurrected by Hard Case Crime.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Brainquake,’ The Last Pulp Crime Novel by Filmmaker Samuel Fuller
The late expatriate American moviemaker’s last pulp novel gets its long-deserved English language publication.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Borderline’ by Lawrence Block
The mystery master has another of his early pulp works resurrected.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Wrong Quarry’ by Max Allan Collins
The newest entry in Collins' hit man series takes our hard-boiled narrator back to the early eighties.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Secret Lives of Married Women’ by Elissa Wald
Hard Case Crime delves into a more erotic realm.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Joyland’ by Stephen King
King’s latest debuts as a Hard Case Crime trade pulp.
Read More »Book Review: Web of the City – by Harlan Ellison
Nobody does grim and brutal better than Ellison, no matter in what genre he is writing.
Read More »Book Review: Web of the City – by Harlan Ellison
The s-f master’s first novel, a pulpish look at Fifties street gang life, gets a reissue through Hard Case Crime.
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