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Hard Case

Hard Case Crime is a new publishing imprint that's been putting out a line of pulpy crime novels. The imprint is reprinting old books by classic authors like Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, and Erle Stanley Gardner. It's also putting out books by newer writers. Hard Case hired illustrators to paint old-style pulp-detective covers, and the imprint designed the trade dress in that fashion as well. The books look like this: I'm going to buy and read them all because they look so great. They need to be in my home. They're fun reads, too. Eight of them are available right now, with eight more on the way; I've bought four and read two. I'm buying them in publication order because there's no thinking that way. I just go out and look for the next one in the list. If I find it, I get it. Sometimes a guy just likes to be big and dumb and not think about what to read next.