Crime Novels of the 1960s: Nine Classic Thrillers (a Library of America Boxed Set)

Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s Here in two volumes are 9 timeless novels, including 4 lost classics now restored to print In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction. Here are nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade: * Fredric Brown's The Murderers (1961), a darkly comic look at a murderous plot hatched on the hip fringes of Hollywood. * Dan J. Marlowe's terrifying The Name of the Game Is Death (1962), about a nihilistic career criminal on the run * Charles Williams's Dead Calm (1963), a masterful novel of natural peril and human evil on the high seas. * Dorothy B. Hughes's The Expendable Man (1963), an unsettling tale of racism and wrongful accusation in the American Southwest. * Richard Stark's taut The Score (1964), in which the master thief Parker plots the