September marks the publishing return of the Hard Case Crime imprint. That month will see the release of the new Christa Faust title, Choke Hold. Also on the way will be a new book from Lawrence Block, Getting Off, which will be Hard Case's first hardcover release. In October, Mickey Spillane will make a posthumous return with The Consummata, a novel dating back to the Seventies that was completed and prepared for publication by Max Allan Collins. The book is a sequel to The Delta Factor. Looks like a must read for fans of old school noir.
Hard Case makes a welcome return after more than a year's absence. They have a new publisher, Titan, replacing Dorchester, which had to let Hard Case go after they decided to go exclusively into e-books and on demand publishing. Hard Case seems to be holding their own in today's wildly fluctuating and transforming publishing biz and should continue bringing noir storytelling to twenty-first century audiences.
While Hard Case was on hiatus, I explored some of my Black Lizard paperbacks, including Lionel White's The Killing and David Goodis's Black Friday. I also delved into the murky underworld of Richard Stark's Parker novels, among them Slayground, Deadly Edge and the Sour Lemon Score, all classics which I hope to review here eventually.
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