These Thriller collection is a hit! Short and long, gets under your skin and funny, socially critical and loose-fluffy Short Stories of the Great from the US. Whether Chandler, Gorman, Thompson, Hammett and many others - this is a real "Best of" the hard-boiled literature of the 20th century. Unfortunately looked my copy, as it did throughout the century of two world wars together participated: yellowed, wavy, thumbed. But as long as you can still browse the stories, I am satisfied ...