Thirty-two stories of stunning ingenuity. Thirty-two writers of legendary genius. One hundred years of crime fiction in a one-of-a-kind collection. Edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Introduction by Max Allan Collins.

Featuring stories by:

Lawrence Block

Leigh Brackett

Gil Brewer

Fredric Brown

James M. Cain

Max Allan Collins

Carroll John Daly

Norbert Davis

Loren D. Estleman

William Campbell Gault

David Goodis

Edward Gorman

Chester Himes

Dorothy B. Hughes

Evan Hunter

John Jakes

Stuart M. Kaminsky

John Lutz

John D. MacDonald

Ross Macdonald

Stephen Marlowe

Lia Matera

William P. McGivern

Marcia Muller

Sara Paretsky

Talmage Powell

Richard S. Prather

Bill Pronzini

Robert Randisi

Benjamin M. Schutz

Mickey Spillane

Donald E. Westlake