Title: The way it was and shall never be again
Product review: Bill Pronzini, along with Jack Adrian, delivers another excellent collection of American prose. The early stories in Hard-Boiled rarely fail to deliver the style of writing that changed fiction -- for the better -- not only in detective/mystery genres but in fictional avenues across the board -- everyone wanted to be the new Hammett and some of them nearly pulled it off. And those who didn't were the better for trying. This is a good read
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