Hardboiled: Crime Scene

by M. Leon Smith (Editor), John L. Thompson, John H. Dromey (Contributor)

Crime Fiction and hardboiled old time stories. Everyone loves them no matter what time frame it's set in. Crime is as old as time itself. Enjoy 12 tales of crime and old time detective in this nice slick volume bought to you by Dead Guns Press and written by: Teel James Glenn, Rie Sheridan Rose, Bill Baber, Bruce Harris, Tim Tobin Jerome W. McFadden, Fred Zackel, John H. Dromey, Mark Mellon, Nick Andreychuk, J.J. Sinisi and Donald Glass.

151 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2015

Reviews

[Tim Schneider · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll be honest, I find anthologies extraordinarily hard to review. Part of it is that I read them over a period of time, generally a story or two in between novels to cleanse the reading palate. Part is that the quality of any given story is going to be variable, even in the best anthology. Theoretically the way to do it would be to review each story as you finish and have an over-arching review at the end. As a practical matter, I do not have time for that. Sometimes I can't keep up with reviews of novels.

So what do I have to say about this one? It's a good crime noir short story anthology. The stories are short and punchy and do the job that I want them to do...give me a little break between bigger reads. To the best of my recollection there weren't any stories here that I actively disliked. That's unusual. So good job to the editor and the various authors.