JAMES ELLROY:

HARD-BOILED, An Anthology of American Crime Stories

SUMMARY: Anthology of crime fiction edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian.

Contains Ellroy's short story, "Gravy Train." The book collects representative short stories from each decade of the 20th Century starting with the 1920s. Other authors collected include Hammett, Chandler, Jim Thompson, Andrew Vachss and Margaret Maron.

POINTS: The novel was first published in hardback by Oxford University Press, Inc. in 1995. A paperback edition was released by Oxford in 1997.

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