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SUMMARY: Fourth volume in a series of anthologies centered around private eye short stories. Authors in this edition include Ellroy, Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, Loren D. Estleman and Bill Pronzini. Edited by Robet J. Randisi, who also supplies an introduction.
Contains Ellroy's short story, "Torch Number," featuring P.I. Spade Hearns. Randisi's set-up notes that Ellroy's short story is "set in his beloved hometown of L.A., circa 1942, and introduces the laudanum-tippling investigator Spade Hearns."
POINTS: The collection was first published in hardback by Mysterious Press in 1990. A limited edition, signed by all contributors and issued in a slipcase, was also releasted. Trade hardcover edition ISBN: 0-89296-371-9.
