Penzler, Otto (ed) - The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps / Пенцлер, Отто (ред) - Большая книга детективов pulp эпохи от Black Lizard [2008, EPUB, ENG]

One, Two, Three / Раз, два, три Paul Cain The Creeping Siamese / Коварные сиамцы Dashiell Hammett Honest Money / Честные деньги Erle Stanley Gardner Frost Rides Alone Horace McCoy Double Check / Двойная проверка Thomas Walsh Stag Party / Последняя вечеринка Charles G. Booth The City of Hell! / Прóклятый город Leslie T. White Red Wind / Кровавый ветер Raymond Chandler Wise Guy / Умник Frederick Nebel Murder Picture / Роковой снимок George Harmon Coxe The Price of a Dime / Десять центов Norbert Davis Chicago Confetti / Чикагское конфетти William Rollins, Jr. Two Murders, One Crime / Три казни за одно убийство Cornell Woolrich The Third Murderer / Третий убийца Carroll John Daly The Cat-Woman / Женщина-кошка Erle Stanley Gardner The Dilemma of the Dead Lady / Дама, валет... Cornell Woolrich The House of Kaa / Обитель зла Richard Sale The Invisible Millionaire / Миллионер-невидимка Leslie Charteris You'll Always Remember Me / Ты запомнишь меня навсегда Steve Fisher Faith / Символ веры Dashiell Hammett Pastorale / Пастораль James M. Cain The Sad Serbian / Грустный серб Frank Gruber Finger Man / Свидетель Raymond Chandler The Monkey Murder / Убийство обезьяны Erle Stanley Gardner About Kid Deth / О парне по фамилии Дет Raoul Whitfield The Sinister Sphere / Зловещее светило Frederick C. Davis Pigeon Blood / Рубины голубиной крови Paul Cain The Perfect Crime / Идеальное преступление C. S. Montanye You'll Die Laughing / Умрешь со смеху Norbert Davis The Crimes of Richmond City / Преступления в Ричмонде Frederick Nebel

i) Raw Law / Суровый закон
ii) Dog Eat Dog
iii) The Law Laughs Last
iv) Law Without Law / Закон без закона
v) Graft / Беспредел

Angel Face Cornell Woolrich Chosen to Die Leslie T. White A Pinch of Snuff Eric Taylor Killer in the Rain / Убийца под дождем Raymond Chandler Sally the Sleuth Adolphe Barreaux A Shock for the Countess C. S. Montanye Snowbound C. B. Yorke The Girl Who Knew Too Much Randolph Barr The Corpse in the Crystal D. B. McCandless He Got What He Asked For D. B. McCandless Gangster's Brand P. T. Lutnan Dance Macabre Robert Reeves The Girl with the Silver Eyes / Девушка с серебряными глазами Dashiell Hammett The Jane from Hell's Kitchen Perry Paul The Duchess Pulls a Fast One Whitman Chambers Mansion of Death Roger Torrey Concealed Weapon Roger Torrey The Devil's Bookkeeper Carlos Martinez Black Legion Lars Anderson Three Wise Men of Babylon Richard Sale The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon Eugene Thomas Brother Murder T. T. Flynn Kindly Omit Flowers Stewart Sterling

One, Two, Three Paul Cain

I’D BEEN IN Los Angeles waiting for this Healey to show for nearly a week. According to my steer, he’d taken a railroad company in Quebec for somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred and fifty grand on a swarm of juggled options or something. That’s a nice neighborhood. My information said further that he was headed west and that he dearly loved to play cards. I do, too. I’ll take three off the top, please. I missed him by about two hours in Chicago and spent the day going around to all the ticket-officers, getting chummy with agents, finally found out Healey had bought a ticket to LA, so I fanned on out there and cooled. Pass. Sunday afternoon I ran into an op for Eastern Investigators, Inc., named Gard, in the lobby of the Roosevelt. We had a couple drinks and talked about this and that. He was on the Coast looking for a gent named Healey. He was cagey about who the client was, but Eastern handles mostly missing persons, divorces, stuff like that. Monday morning Gard called me and said the Salt Lake branch of his outfit had located Healey in Caliente, Nevada. He said he thought I might like to know. I told him I wasn’t interested and thanked him and then I rented a car in a U Drive place and drove up to Caliente. I got there about four in the afternoon and spotted Healey in the second joint I went into. He was sitting in a stud game with five of the home boys and if they were a fair sample of local talent I figured I had plenty of time. ...