Pulps: Where Crime Noir Began

Before the novels… before the films… there were the pulps.In the early 20th century, cheap magazines printed on rough paper gave rise to a new kind of story—hard, fast, and unflinching. In their pages, the modern crime story was born.The Pulps: Where Crime Noir Began traces the rise of pulp magazines like Black Mask and the writers who reshaped fiction forever. Figures such as Dashiell Hammett and...