![]() And they assumed that part of that reason was limited audience. When Ardai and Hard Case co-founder Max Phillips were planning the imprint's launch, "we figured there was a reason had gone out of business," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. ![]() ![]() Ardai, a one-time literature major who studied the English Romantic poets in his undergraduate career, tells Terry Gross that he's drawn to pulp fiction's tradition of wounded heroes. He's haunted, damaged, often a little off-balance. His novels Little Girl Lost and Songs of Innocence detail the exploits of private investigator John Blake.īlake is no hard-boiled, flint-eyed detective. Under the pseudonym Richard Aleas - an anagram of his own name - Ardai writes crime fiction, too. All Hard Case novels come out in mass-market paperback editions, much like the classic crime novels from the '40s, '50s and '60s, with cover art inspired by images from the genre's heyday. Edgar Award-winning author Charles Ardai is founder of Hard Case Crime, a pulp-fiction publishing group that reprints classic crime stories and publishes new pulp. ![]()
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