Greenberg, Martin H. (ed.) - Hard-Boiled Detectives / Гринберг, Мартин (ред.) - Крутые детективы [1992, epub, ENG]

HELL'S PAY CHECK by Frederick Nebel THE CRIME MACHINE by Carroll John Daly THE HAND OF HORROR by Erle Stanley Gardner NINE PARTS DEVIL by Max Brand A BURIAL IS ARRANGED by John Lawrence A MAN'S LAST HOURS by William E. Barrett SOMETHING FOR THE SWEEPER by Norbert Davis FOOTPRINTS ON A BRAIN by D. L. Champion THE LADY IN THE LAKE / Девушка в озере by Raymond Chandler STRANGLER'S KILL by Merle Constiner DING DONG BELLE by Hugh B. Cave YOU SLAY ME, BABY by Frederick C. Davis SLEEP NO MORE MY LOVELY by G. T. Fleming-Roberts I'LL SLAY YOU IN MY DREAMS by Bruno Fischer NO MINIMUM FOR MURDER by Julius Long A GHOUL AND HIS MONEY by C. M. Kornbluth COLD STORAGE by Robert Turner DEATH COMES GIFT-WRAPPED by William P. McGivern A DISH OF HOMICIDE by Hank Searls SAFE AS ANY SAP by William Tenn NONE BUT THE LETHAL HEART by William C. Gault THE MAN FROM LIMBO by John D. MacDonald MURDERER'S ENCORE / Двойное убийство by Murray Leinster

Me, I’d just as well have stayed out of the whole thing. When they made me a political columnist, I kissed the boys on the police beat good-bye, chucked the city editor under the chin and hoped he’d still be this side of the green grass the day they got the city washed clean of the Prohibition-style gangs the previous, corrupt administration had left behind. I was through with corpses and cops, with bodies that hadn’t quite made it to the morgue in one hunk, and with hoods who weren’t quite complete In the head. I was through with murder. I thought. . . .