The Hardboiled Dicks, edited by Ron Goulart

 There was a dark and gloomy era before the advent of radio, film, television, VCRs, laser discs, the internet, DVDs, blu rays, and streaming video. In that age, people read. Serialized dramas took the form of printed documents called “books,” “dime novels,” “fiction weeklies,” etc. From the end of World   War I through end of the 1940s, roughly four million pulp magazine titles had appeared