Anthology

Hi
I am looking for a good collection of hardboiled short stories. Anyone have a fave?

Maybe a collection of Dashiell Hammet Continental Op shorts.
There are also some shorter Marlowe stories in Trouble is My Business.

There's the Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction and Unusual Suspects: An Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard. The Mammoth books are always good, too...like The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction and The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories.

Another one I know of (but haven't read) is Hardboiled: An Anthology.

I'll second the recommendation of The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories. Perhaps by now someone has edited a collection of stories from Black Mask magazine.

There is also the noir series-Brooklyn Noir,Havana Noir and now there is Toronto Noir. I think there is also Miami Noir.

alans, there's a London Noir volume too.

Following on from message 2, there's a several other volumes of non-Marlowe Raymond Chandler shorts that are well worth investigating called Playback, Trouble is My Business and The Simple Art of Murder.

#5 and #6 I love those titles...(place name of city here) Noir. There should be a Noirish Noir. lol

thanks for the recs

Excellent. Good to see those exist, alans and Grammath. But isn't Playback a Marlowe novel?

Yep, Eurydice it is. Don't know how that slipped in there.

Happens to the best of us. :) I'll look out for the noir collections, when my moratorium on book-buying ends.

A moratorium on book buying? Sounds harrowing.

Yes. It might be. But the reason may alleviate it somewhat. I just came home from a visit to Cambridge, Mass. Between fabulous used and remaindered books, and a selection of birthday gifts, I brought 45 books. Since, I've gotten sent, or bought, 9 great mysteries. I already had too many unread books. This assortment is too good to let go unread because I'm dazzled by new things I can't afford. And so, the moratorium.

Till the end of June, at least.

The Chandler book I was thinking of was Pearls are a Nuisance. I knew it began with a P.

Grammath - thanks! It's one I'd not even heard of. (Sad admission? But true.)

This list is great. Thanks to everyone.:)

I'll add -

The Black Lizard Big Book Of Pulps (2007)
The Black Lizard Big Book Of Black Mask Stories (2010)