Wearing a low-cut dress or sweater, usually in tatters, and menaced by a group of muscular thugs or a single scarred villain, the clichéd cover girls of pulp fiction magazines stole the limelight from their rather more spirited sisters concealed within. From the pens of writing legends like Dashell Hammett, Cronell Woolrich and Raymond Chandler, stories of the greatest grand dames of the pulp genre have been gathered together in this unique volume.
