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Old 11-15-2021, 12:15 PM   #5772
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard is not a small/unknown publisher. Their version of The Maltese Falcon is the legit (legal) version of the book in the US. Any others you see listed on Amazon US are bootlegs.

Black Lizard are or have been the US publisher of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, Carl Hiassen, Stieg Larsson, Jeff Lindsay and Andrew Vachss. (I have Chandler books from Black Lizard published in the '80's.)

Their Black Lizard Big Book of series edited by Otto Penzler (Pulps, Black Mask Mysteries, Locked-Room Mysteries) are recommended.
, but the whole imprint situation (I think Vintage Crime is owned by Knopf) reminds me of an image I saw of several dozen food brands being owned by maybe ten or so big conglomerates.
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