Edited by famous Otto Penzler and with introduction by Harlan Ellison, this is collection of stories originally appeared in Black Mask magazines in time when Great Depression ruled. Amongst numerous stories (book itself is over 600 pages long) there are quite bit of gems here of the hard-boiled type.
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