Hard Case Crime

Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai (also the founder of the Internet service Juno Online Services) and Max Phillips.[1][2] The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and '50s. The covers feature original illustrations done in a style familiar from the golden age of paperbacks (the 1950s and '60s), credited to artists such as Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.[3]

Hard Case Crime

Founded	2004
Founder	Charles Ardai
Country of origin	United States
Fiction genres	Hardboiled, fiction

The collection includes both reprints of books from the pulp era (typically labeled Complete and unabridged on the cover), and new novels written for the collection (typically labeled First publication anywhere). The top-selling entries in the series to date have been novels by Stephen King: The Colorado Kid (2005), which later became the basis for the SyFy television series Haven,[4][5][6] and Joyland (2013).

Six novels published by Hard Case have been nominated for the Edgar Award: In 2005, Little Girl Lost, by Richard Aleas (a pseudonym for Hard Case Crime co-founder Charles Ardai that is both an anagram of Ardai's name and a play on "alias"), was nominated as Best First Novel by an American Author, and Domenic Stansberry's The Confession won the award for Best Paperback Original; in 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2014, respectively, Allan Guthrie's Kiss Her Goodbye, Russell Hill's Robbie's Wife, Christa Faust's Money Shot, and Stephen King's Joyland were nominated for Best Paperback Original.[7]

Max Phillips' Fade to Blonde won the 2005 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Novel of the Year, and Charles Ardai's pseudonymous "Richard Aleas" novel Songs of Innocence won the same award in 2008.[8] Ardai also received the Edgar Award in 2007, for his short story "The Home Front."[9]

Between 2004 and 2010, Hard Case Crime was published through a collaboration between Ardai's company, Winterfall LLC, and Dorchester Publishing. Starting in 2011, Titan Books replaced Dorchester as publisher of the series.[10] Additionally, two volumes in the series, one reprinting a pair of early Lawrence Block novels, 69 Barrow Street and Strange Embrace, the other a collection of Lawrence Block short stories, Catch and Release, were published by Subterranean Press.[11]

Titles

#	Title	Author	Cover Artist	Release Date	Earliest Copyright	ISBN	Notes
001	Grifter's Game	Lawrence Block	Chuck Pyle	September 2004	1961	0-8439-5349-7	Complete and unabridged
002	Fade to Blonde	Max Phillips	Gregory Manchess	September 2004	2004	0-8439-5350-0	First publication anywhere
003	Top of the Heap	Erle Stanley Gardner	Bill Nelson	October 2004	1952	0-8439-5352-7	First publication in 30 years
004	Little Girl Lost	Richard Aleas	Robert McGinnis	October 2004	2004	0-8439-5351-9	First time in paperback
005	Two for the Money	Max Allan Collins	Mark Texeira	November 2004	1973	0-8439-5353-5	Complete and unabridged
006	The Confession	Domenic Stansberry	Richard B. Farrell	November 2004	2004	0-8439-5354-3	First publication anywhere
007	Home Is the Sailor	Day Keene	Richard B. Farrell and Gregory Manchess	March 2005	1952	0-8439-5356-X	First publication in over 30 years
008	Kiss Her Goodbye	Allan Guthrie	Chuck Pyle	March 2005	2005	0-8439-5355-1	First publication anywhere
009	361	Donald E. Westlake	Richard B. Farrell	May 2005	1962	0-8439-5357-8	Complete and unabridged
010	Plunder of the Sun	David Dodge	Robert McGinnis	May 2005	1949	0-8439-5358-6	Complete and unabridged
011	Branded Woman	Wade Miller	Glen Orbik	July 2005	1952	0-8439-5359-4	Complete and unabridged
012	Dutch Uncle	Peter Pavia	Richard B. Farrell	July 2005	2005	0-8439-5360-8	First publication anywhere
013	The Colorado Kid	Stephen King	Glen Orbik	October 2005	2005	0-8439-5584-8	First publication anywhere
014	The Girl with the Long Green Heart	Lawrence Block	Robert McGinnis	November 2005	1965	0-8439-5585-6	Complete and unabridged
015	The Gutter and the Grave	Ed McBain	Richard B. Farrell	December 2005	1958	0-8439-5587-2	Complete and unabridged
016	Night Walker	Donald Hamilton	Tim Gabor	January 2006	1954	0-8439-5586-4	Complete and unabridged
017	A Touch of Death	Charles Williams	Chuck Pyle	February 2006	1953	0-8439-5588-0	Complete and unabridged
018	Say It with Bullets	Richard Powell	Michael Koelsch	March 2006	1953	0-8439-5589-9	First publication in 50 years
019	Witness to Myself	Seymour Shubin	Larry Schwinger	April 2006	2006	0-8439-5590-2	First publication anywhere
020	Bust	Ken Bruen and Jason Starr	Richard B. Farrell	May 2006	2006	0-8439-5591-0	First publication anywhere
021	Straight Cut	Madison Smartt Bell	Chuck Pyle	June 2006	1986	0-8439-5592-9	Complete and unabridged
022	Lemons Never Lie	Richard Stark	Richard B. Farrell	July 2006	1971	0-8439-5593-7	Complete and unabridged
023	The Last Quarry	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	August 2006	2006 (drawn in part from short story published in 1989)	0-8439-5594-5	First publication anywhere
024	The Guns of Heaven	Pete Hamill	Larry Schwinger	September 2006	1983	0-8439-5595-3	Complete and unabridged
025	The Last Match	David Dodge	William George	October 2006	2003 (written in 1973 but not published until 2006)	0-8439-5596-1	Never before published
026	Grave Descend	John Lange	Gregory Manchess	November 2006 (reissued as by "Michael Crichton writing as John Lange" in October 2013)	1970	0-8439-5597-X	Complete and unabridged
027	The Peddler	Richard S. Prather	Robert McGinnis	December 2006	1952	0-8439-5598-8	Complete and unabridged
028	Lucky At Cards	Lawrence Block	Chuck Pyle	February 2007	1964	0-8439-5768-9	First publication in almost 40 years
029	Robbie's Wife	Russell Hill[12]	Richard B. Farrell	March 2007	2007	0-8439-5769-7	First publication anywhere
030	The Vengeful Virgin	Gil Brewer	Gregory Manchess	April 2007	1958	0-8439-5770-0	Complete and unabridged
031	The Wounded and the Slain	David Goodis	Glen Orbik	May 2007	1955	0-8439-5771-9	Complete and unabridged
032	Blackmailer	George Axelrod	Glen Orbik	June 2007	1952	0-8439-5772-7	Complete and unabridged
033	Songs of Innocence	Richard Aleas	Glen Orbik	July 2007	2007	0-8439-5773-5	First Publication Anywhere
034	Fright	Cornell Woolrich	Arthur Suydam	August 2007	1950	0-8439-5774-3	First publication in over 50 years
035	Kill Now, Pay Later	Robert Terrall	Robert McGinnis	September 2007	1960	0-8439-5775-1	Complete and unabridged
036	Slide	Ken Bruen and Jason Starr	Richard B. Farrell	October 2007	2007	0-8439-5776-X	First publication anywhere
037	Dead Street	Mickey Spillane	Arthur Suydam	November 2007	2007	0-8439-5777-8	Never before published
038	Deadly Beloved	Max Allan Collins	Terry Beatty	December 2007	2007	0-8439-5778-6	First publication anywhere
039	A Diet of Treacle	Lawrence Block	Chuck Pyle	January 2008	1961	0-8439-5957-6	Complete and unabridged
040	Money Shot	Christa Faust	Glen Orbik	February 2008	2008	0-8439-5958-4	First publication anywhere
041	Zero Cool	John Lange	Gregory Manchess	March 2008 (reissued as by "Michael Crichton writing as John Lange" in November 2013)	1969	0-8439-5959-2	Complete and unabridged
042	Shooting Star/Spiderweb	Robert Bloch	Arthur Suydam/Larry Schwinger	April 2008	1958/1954	0-8439-5960-6	Two complete novels
043	The Murderer Vine	Shepard Rifkin	Ken Laager	May 2008	1970	0-8439-5961-4	Complete and unabridged
044	Somebody Owes Me Money	Donald E. Westlake	Michael Koelsch	June 2008	1969	0-8439-5962-2	First publication in over 35 years
045	No House Limit	Steve Fisher	Richard B. Farrell	July 2008	1958	0-8439-5963-0	Complete and unabridged
046	Baby Moll	John Farris	Robert McGinnis	August 2008	1958	0-8439-5964-9	First publication in 50 years
047	The Max	Ken Bruen and Jason Starr	Glen Orbik	September 2008	2008	0-8439-5966-5	First publication anywhere
048	The First Quarry	Max Allan Collins	Ken Laager	October 2008	2008	0-8439-5965-7	First publication anywhere
049	Gun Work	David J. Schow	Joe DeVito	November 2008	2008	0-8439-5967-3	First publication anywhere
050	Fifty-To-One	Charles Ardai	Glen Orbik	December 2008	2008	0-8439-5968-1	First publication anywhere
051	Killing Castro	Lawrence Block	Sharif Tarabay	January 2009	1961	0-8439-6113-9	First publication in almost 50 years
052	The Dead Man's Brother	Roger Zelazny	Chuck Pyle	February 2009	2009 (written but not published in 1971)	0-8439-6114-7	First publication anywhere
053	The Cutie	Donald E. Westlake	Ken Laager	March 2009	1960	0-8439-6115-5	Complete and unabridged
054	House Dick	E. Howard Hunt	Glen Orbik	April 2009	1961	0-8439-6116-3	Complete and unabridged
055	Casino Moon	Peter Blauner	Ricky Mujica	May 2009	1994	0-8439-6117-1	Complete and unabridged
056	Fake I.D.	Jason Starr	Gregg Kreutz	June 2009	2000	0-8439-6118-X	First U.S. publication ever
057	Passport To Peril	Robert Bogardus Parker 1905-1955	Gregory Manchess	July 2009	1951	0-8439-6119-8	First publication in over 50 years
058	Stop This Man!	Peter Rabe	Robert McGinnis	August 2009	1955	0-8439-6120-1	First publication in 45 years
059	Losers Live Longer	Russell Atwood	Robert McGinnis	September 2009	2009	0-8439-6121-X	First publication ever
060	Honey In His Mouth	Lester Dent	Ron Lesser	October 2009	2009 (written but not published in 1956)	0-8439-6122-8	First publication ever
061	Quarry In The Middle	Max Allan Collins	Ron Lesser	November 2009	2009	0-8439-6124-4	First publication ever
062	The Corpse Wore Pasties	Jonny Porkpie	Ricky Mujica	December 2009	2009	0-8439-6123-6	First publication ever
063	The Valley of Fear	Arthur Conan Doyle	Glen Orbik	December 2009	1915	0-8439-6295-X	Inspired by a true story
064	Memory	Donald E. Westlake	Glen Orbik	April 2010	2010	0-8439-6375-1	First publication ever
065	Nobody's Angel	Jack Clark	Ron Lesser	June 2010	2010 (500 self-published copies of earlier version distributed in 1996)	0-8439-6327-1	First time in stores
066	Murder Is My Business	Brett Halliday	Robert McGinnis	August 2010	1945	0-8439-6328-X	Complete and unabridged
069	69 Barrow Street/Strange Embrace	Lawrence Block	Robert McGinnis	May 2012	1961/1962	978-1-59606-489-8	Two complete novels
070	Catch and Release	Lawrence Block	Ken Laager	September 2013		978-1-59606-571-0
101	Getting Off	Lawrence Block	Gregory Manchess	September 2011	2011	978-0-85768-287-1	First publication anywhere
102	Quarry's Ex	Max Allan Collins	Gregory Manchess	September 2011	2011	978-0-85768-286-4	First publication anywhere
103	The Consummata	Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	October 2011	2011	978-0-85768-288-8	First publication anywhere
104	Choke Hold	Christa Faust	Glen Orbik	October 2011	2011	978-0-85768-285-7	First publication anywhere
105	The Comedy Is Finished	Donald E. Westlake	Gregory Manchess	February 2012	2012 (Written but not published in 1970s)	978-0-85768-408-0	First publication anywhere
106	Blood On the Mink	Robert Silverberg	Michael Koelsch	April 2012	1962	978-0-85768-768-5
107	False Negative	Joseph Koenig	Glen Orbik	June 2012	2012	978-0-85768-580-3	First publication anywhere
108	The Twenty-Year Death	Ariel S. Winter	Chuck Pyle	August 2012	2012	978-0-85768-581-0	First publication anywhere
109	The Cocktail Waitress	James M. Cain	Michael Koelsch	September 2012	2012	978-1-78116-032-9	First publication anywhere
110	Seduction of the Innocent	Max Allen Collins	Glen Orbik	February 2013	2013	978-0-85768-748-7
111	Web of the City	Harlan Ellison	Glen Orbik	April 2013	1958	978-1-78116-420-4
112	Joyland	Stephen King	Glen Orbik/Robert McGinnis	June 2013	2013	978-1-78116-264-4
113	The Secret Lives of Married Women	Elissa Wald	Glen Orbik	October 2013	2013	978-1-78116-262-0
MC1	Odds On	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Glen Orbik	November 2013	1966	978-1-78329-118-2
MC2	Scratch One	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Glen Orbik	October 2013	1967	978-1-78329-119-9
MC3	Easy Go	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Glen Orbik	October 2013	1968	978-1-78329-120-5
MC4	Zero Cool	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Gregory Manchess	November 2013 (first issued as by "John Lange" in 2008)	1969	0-8439-5959-2	Complete and unabridged
MC5	The Venom Business	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Gregory Manchess	November 2013	1969	978-1-78329-122-9
MC6	Drug of Choice	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Gregory Manchess	November 2013	1970	978-1-78329-123-6
MC7	Grave Descend	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Gregory Manchess	October 2013 (first issued as by "John Lange" in 2006)	1970	978-1-78329-124-3
MC8	Binary	Michael Crichton writing as John Lange	Glen Orbik	October 2013	1972	978-1-78329-125-0
114	The Wrong Quarry	Max Allan Collins	Tyler Jacobson	January 2014		978-1-78116-266-8
115	Borderline	Lawrence Block	Michael Koelsch	May 2014		978-1-78116-266-8
116	Brainquake	Samuel Fuller	Glen Orbik	September 2014	1962	978-1-78116-819-6
S01	A Walk Among the Tombstones	Lawrence Block	None	August 2014	1992	978-1-78329-562-3	Now a Major motion picture starring Liam Neeson
117	Easy Death	Daniel Boyd	Glen Orbik	November 2014	2014	978-0-85768-579-7
118	Quarry's Choice	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	January 2015	2015	978-1-78329-084-0
119	Thieves Fall Out	Gore Vidal	Glen Orbik	April 2015	1953	978-1-78116-792-2
120	So Nude, So Dead	Ed McBain	Gregory Manchess	July 2015	1952	9781781166062
121	The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes	Lawrence Block	Glen Orbik	September 2015	2015	978-1-78329-750-4	First publication anywhere
S02	Quarry	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	October 2015	1976	978-1-78329-883-9	Previously published as The Broker
S03	Quarry's List	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	October 2015	1976	978-1-78329-885-3	Previously published as The Broker's Wife
S04	Quarry's Deal	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	October 2015	1976	978-1-78329-887-7	Previously published as The Dealer
S05	Quarry's Cut	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	October 2015	1977	978-1-78329-889-1	Previously published as The Slasher
S06	Quarry's Vote	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	March 2016	1987	978-1-78329-891-4	Previously published as Primary Target
122	Cut Me In	Ed McBain	Robert McGinnis	January 2016	1954
123	Pimp	Ken Bruen and Jason Starr	Michael Koelsch	March 2016	2016	978-1-78329-569-2
S07	The Nice Guys	Charles Ardai	None	May 2016	2016	978-1-78565-257-8	First publication anywhere; novelization of the film of the same name
124	SoHo Sins	Richard Vine	Robert McGuire	July 2016	2016	978-1-78329-928-7
125	Quarry in the Black	Max Allan Collins	Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik	October 2016	2016	978-1-78329-814-3
126	Sinner Man	Lawrence Block	Michael Koelsch	November 2016	1968 (written in 1958 but not published until 1968)	978-1-78565-001-7	Previously published as Savage Lover
127	The Knife Slipped	Erle Stanley Gardner	Robert McGinnis	December 2016	2016 (written in 1939 but not published until 2016)	978-1-78329-927-0
128	Snatch	Gregory Mcdonald	Patrick Faricy	January 2017	1978, 1985	978-1-78565-182-3	Previously published as two separate novels, Who Took Toby Rinaldi? and Safekeeping
129	Forever and a Death	Donald E. Westlake	Paul Mann	June 2017	2017	978-1-78565-423-7	First publication anywhere
130	Quarry's Climax	Max Allan Collins	Robert McGinnis	October 2017	2017	978-1-78565-180-9	First publication anywhere
131	Turn on the Heat	Erle Stanley Gardner	Laurel Blechman, Robert Maguire	November 2017	1940	978-1-78565-423-7
132	Help I Am Being Held Prisoner	Donald E. Westlake	Paul Mann	February 2018	1974	978-1-78565-682-8	First publication in 30 years
133	The Last Stand	Mickey Spillane	Laurel Blechman	March 2018	2018	978-1-78565-686-6	First publication anywhere. Also includes previously unpublished novella A Bullet For Satisfaction
134	Understudy For Death	Charles Willeford	Paul Mann	July 2018	1961	978-1-78565-698-9	First publication in 60 years
135	Charlesgate Confidential	Scott Von Doviak	Paul Mann	September 2018	2018	978-1-78565-717-7	First publication anywhere
136	The Count of 9	Erle Stanley Gardner	Robert McGinnis	October 2018	1958	978-1-78565-634-7	First publication in 50 years
137	So Many Doors	Oakley Hall	Robert McGinnis, Robert Maguire	November 2018	1951	978-1-78565-688-0
138	Brothers Keepers	Donald E. Westlake	Paul Mann	February 2019	1975	978-1-78565-715-3
139	A Bloody Business	Dylan Struzan	Drew Struzan	April 2019	2019	978-1-78565-770-2	First publication anywhere
140	Triumph of the Spider Monkey	Joyce Carol Oates	Robert McGinnis	July 2019	1979	978-1-78565-677-4	First publication in 40 years, and first publication ever with the lost Joyce Carol Oates companion novella "Love, Careless Love," unseen anywhere outside of a literary journal in 1974
141	Blood Sugar	Daniel Kraus	Robert McGinnis	October 2019	2019	978-1-78909-193-9	First publication anywhere
142	Killing Quarry	Max Allan Collins	Paul Mann	November 2019	2019	978-1-78565-945-4	First publication anywhere
143	Double Feature	Donald E. Westlake	Paul Mann	February 2020	1977	978-1-78565-720-7	First publication in 40 years
144	Are Snakes Necessary?	Brian De Palma & Susan Lehman	Paul Mann	March 2020	2020	978-1-78565-720-7	The new novel from Brian De Palma
145	Shills Can't Cash Chips	Erle Stanley Gardner		June 2020	1961

Graphic Novels

Title	Writer	Artist	Release Date	ISBN
The Assignment	Matz . & Walter Hill	Jef .	14 Mar 2017	9781785861451
Triggerman	Matz . & Walter Hill	Jef .	6 Jun 2017	9781785858673
Peepland Vol.1	Christa Faust & Gary Phillips	Andrea Camerini	11 Jul 2017	9781785851193
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Millennium Vol.1	Stieg Larsson & Sylvain Runberg	Jose Homs	14 Nov 2017	9781785861734
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Millennium Vol.2	Sylvain Runberg	Man .	9 Jan 2018	9781785861741
Normandy Gold	Alison Gaylin & Megan Abbot	Steve Scott	11 Apr 2018	9781785858642
Millennium: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Vol.3	Sylvain Runberg	Jose Homs	17 Apr 2018	9781785863455
Quarry's War Vol 1	Max Allan Collins	Edu Menna, Szymon Kudranski	3 Jul 2018	9781785851186
Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini Vol.1	Cynthia Von Buhler	Cynthia Von Buhler	22 Aug 2018	9781785863974
Tyler Cross: Black Rock Vol 1	Fabien Nury	Brüno	26 Sep 2018	9781785867309
Babylon Berlin	Volker Kutscher	Arne Jysch	17 Oct 2018	9781785866357
The Prague Coup	Jean-Luc Fromental	Hyman Miles	12 Dec 2018	9781785868870
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Night I Died TP Vol.1	Max Allan Collins	Marcelo Salaza	19 Dec 2018	9781785866449
Millennium: The Girl Who Danced With Death Vol.4	Sylvain Runberg	Belén Ortega	30 Jan 2019	9781785866937
Tyler Cross: Angola Vol 2	Fabien Nury	Brüno	13 Mar 2019	9781785867316
Breakneck	Duane Swierczynski	Simone Guglielmini	29 May 2019	9781785864612
Ryuko Vol 1	Eldo Yoshimizu	Eldo Yoshimizu	6 Aug 2019	9781787730946
Ms. Tree: One Mean Mother Vol 1.	Max Allan Collins	Terry Beatty	4 Sep 2019	9781787730519
Ryuko Vol 2	Eldo Yoshimizu	Eldo Yoshimizu	16 Oct 2019	9781787732551

References

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3. "Hard Case Shows a Soft Spot for Pulp". National Public Radio. 2008-05-05.
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External links

• Hard Case Crime Official Web Site