Founded | 2004 |
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Founder | Charles Ardai |
Country of origin | United States |
Key people | Max Phillips |
Publication types | Books, Graphic novels, Comics |
Fiction genres | Hardboiled, fiction |
Owner(s) | Winterfall LLC, in collaboration with Dorchester Publishing (2004–2010); in collaboration with Titan Books (2011–present) |
Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai and Max Phillips.[1][2] The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and '50s. The covers feature original illustrations done in a style that was common for paperbacks of that era, credited to artists such as Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.[3]