Wearing a low-cut dress or sweater - usually in tatters - and menaced by a group of muscular thugs or a single, scarred villain, the cliched cover girls of pulp fiction magazines stole the limelight from their rather more spirited sisters concealed within. From the pens of writing legends like Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich and Raymond Chandler, stories of the greatest grand dames of the pulp genre have been gathered together in this unique volume. Its pages are rich with female jewel thieves of a certain elegance, feisty reporters in pursuit of an exclusive, gun molls with gangster boyfriends, avenging angels, tough broads and out-and-out hoodlums. Tailor-made for pulp novices and hard-boiled fans with a soft spot for the masters, "Pulp Fiction: The Dames" shows that some writing has an edge that time just can't dull. Contents: Preface - Otto Penzler Introduction - Laura Lippman Angel Face - Cornell Woolrich Chosen to Die - Leslie T. White A Pinch of Snuff - Eric Taylor Killer in the Rain - Raymond Chandler Sally the Sleuth - Adolphe Barreaux A Shock for the Countess - C. S. Montanye Snowbound - C. B. Yorke The Girl Who Knew Too Much - Randolph Barr The Corpse in the Crystal - D. B. McCandless He Got What He Asked For - D. B. McCandless Gangster's Brand - P. T. Luman Dance Macabre - Robert Reeves The Girl with the Silver Eyes - Dashiell Hammett The Jane from Hell's Kitchen - Perry Paul The Duchess Pulls a Fast One - Whitman Chambers Mansion of Death - Roger Torrey Concealed Weapon - Roger Torrey The Devil's Bookkeeper - Carlos Martinez Black Legion - Lars Anderson Three Wise Men of Babylon - Richard Sale The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon - Eugene Thomas Brother Murder - T. T. Flynn Kindly Omit Flowers - Stewart Sterling