Fifty-To-One

Dust jacket by Glen Orbik

Celebrating 50 Years of Hard Case Crime!

Okay, not really. But what if, instead of having been founded 50 books ago, Hard Case Crime had been founded 50 years ago, by a rascal out to make a quick buck off the popularity of pulp fiction? Such a fellow might make a few enemies—especially after publishing a supposed non-fiction account of a heist at a Mob-run nightclub, actually penned by an 18-year-old showgirl. With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them…

Fifty-to-One will feature a full color signature page, plus full color endsheets depicting the 49 previous books in the Hard Case Crime Series

In addition, each chapter of Fifty-to-One bears the title of a previous Hard Case Crime book, including such gems as Lucky at Cards (Lawrence Block), Lemons Never Lie (Richard Stark), The Colorado Kid (Stephen King), and Gun Work (David J. Schow), among others.

Limited to 500 signed (by Charles Ardai) and numbered copies

Deluxe: 50 copies, custom bound in a different cloth, housed in a handmade traycase and signed by the authors below
 

The following authors have signed the fifty copy deluxe edition:

• Richard Aleas/Charles Ardai
• Madison Smartt Bell
• Lawrence Block
• Ken Bruen
• Max Allan Collins
• John Farris
• Christa Faust
• Allan Guthrie
• Pete Hamill
• Russell Hill
• Stephen King
• John Lange - (Michael Crichton's pseudonym0
• Peter Pavia
• Max Phillips
• David J. Schow
• Seymour Shubin
• Domenic Stansberry
• Donald Westlake
• Jason Starr