"Some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner." -Raymond Chandler on Fast One "Cain's stories move quickly with never a wasted word." -Keith Alan Deutsch
Fifteen classic hard-boiled stories 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. The protagonists of ambiguous morality who populate Cain's work are portrayed with a cinematic flair for the grim hardness of their world. This collection presents Cain's classic crime stories to a contemporary audience. "Some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner." -Raymond Chandler on Fast One "Cain's stories move quickly with never a wasted word." -Keith Alan Deutsch Paul Cain was the pen name of George Caryl Sims (1902-1966), a pulp fiction author and screenwriter. His sole novel, Fast One (1932), is considered a landmark of the hard-boiled style.
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