"I can take trouble or leave it alone; only I always take it"

With their taut writing and engaging plots, I have really enjoyed reading the stories collected in "THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF PULPS."
Paul Cain, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Carroll John Daly are among the immortal, hard-boiled detective storytellers collected in this volume.
The pulps were the cheap magazines that flourished during the 1920s-40s, offering sordid tales to readers who only had movies, radio and the printed word for pop cultural entertainment.
I love reading the stories because they represent FILM-NOIR values liberally spread across the printed page.
Besides, with the weather we are currently enduring (39 degrees with wind-blown rain, at the time of this writing), there really is no greater balm than a night on the couch with a good book.