Paul Cain’s Slayers: The Hardest of the Hard-Boiled Gets Reprinted
By Ed Lin
May 27, 2012It’s about time all of Paul Cain’s published fiction was reprinted and collected. When people say Cain was a run-of-the-mill writer whose work deserves to fall out of print (“Cain wasn’t any good,” The Wall Street Journal bluntly assessed in March), I say that his work speaks to many readers 80 years later who continue…