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Seven Slayers: Classic Hardboiled Crime Stories
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515425656
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A collection of hard-edged crime stories associated with the early development of American noir, attributed to Paul Cain. These stories reflect the terse, stripped-down style that defined the transition from pulp crime fiction to a more modern hardboiled form, emphasizing action, moral ambiguity, and abrupt violence.
The narratives are marked by their economy of language and their focus on professional criminals, investigators, and figures operating at the margins of legality. Dialogue is direct, scenes are tightly constructed, and outcomes are often unresolved or uncompromising, aligning the work with the emerging noir sensibility of the 1930s and 1940s.
This edition presents the collected stories in a clear and consistent format, preserving their original tone while providing a stable modern typesetting for contemporary readers.
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