From the “Hard Case” Files: Pursuing Pulp’s Heroes
By Charles Ardai
April 25, 2011Back in 2004, Max Phillips and I launched a labor-of-love project we called Hard Case Crime, intended to revive the style of the great old paperback crime novels of the 1940s and 50s. We thought it might, if we were lucky, last a half dozen titles before people stopped humoring us. Last August, we…