Would you look at this beautiful book?

The Complete Slayers: Fast One and the Complete Short Stories of Paul Cain.

Paul Cain isn’t the best-known of the Black Mask writers, in part because he only wrote one book, but he certainly deserves to be remembered. As Chandler said, his novel Fast One is “some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner.”

This collection contains that novel, his short stories, and a biographical essay by Max Allen Collins and Lynn Myers that I know I want to read.

Forty-five bucks is a lot for a book, but I think I might have to spring for this one.

But if it’s too rich for your blood, and you’ve yet to check out Cain, you can always get a less pricey edition of Fast One.