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Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-Boiled Detective edited by Ruhm 

The Ruhm collection was my intro to HardBoiled fiction. I picked it up on
a whim several years ago before I ever got interested in crime fiction.
The best $3 I ever spent. A superior collection. I'm assuming it's out of
print. I would like an all-Black Mask anthology for my students. Is there
any such book currently in print?

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Michael D. Sharp, Dept. of English, University of Michigan
(msharp@umich.edu) 

"Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!" --Ralph Wiggum
                        

On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Jiro Kimura wrote:

> Eddie Duggan kindly listed up the stories in THE HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE,
> edited by Herbert Ruhm (Vintage, 1977).  This anthology is a paperback
> original published by the paperback line of Random House in the USA.. 
> Besides the 12 stories listed by Eddie Duggan, the other two omitted from
> the British edition are:
> 
> "Once Around the Clock," by George Harman Coxe (BM, May 1941)
> "Five O'Clock Menace," by Bruno Fisher (BM,  March 1949)
> 
> Well, I am not an expert.  I just have a copy of INDEX TO CRIME AND MYSTERY
> ANTHOLOGIES (G. K. Hall, 1990; copyright 1991), compiled by William G.
> Contento and Martin H. Greenberg.  It sets you back $60.00, but if you
> regard yourself as a mystery buff, it is worth it.  
> 
> Incidentally, Ruhm said to me off the record in 1977, the reprint rights to
> two Hammett's stories cost a half of the payment for all the stories.  That
> may be the reason why some hardboiled anthologies (such as THE MAMMOTH BOOK
> OF PRIVATE EYE STORIES) don't have any of Hammett's stories.
> 
> Jiro Kimura
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