Black Lizard was an American book publisher.
Random House bought the rights to the Black Lizard name in June 1990 and merged it with Vintage Crime: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard was the result. Many of Black Lizards' earlier releases were replaced by mainstream-friendly writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, as well as numerous contemporary authors, including Jason Starr, whose noir crime novel Hard Feelings was Vintage Crime/Black Lizard’s first ever original novel. The mass-market paperbacks were replaced by trade paperbacks with black-and-white photographs on the covers. Most of the series was reprinted in this new format, but practically all of the books published by Lizard before the merge, with the notable exception of books by Jim Thompson, have since been allowed to fall out of print and have remained so since the early 1990s.
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External links
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- List of books originally published
- [DEAD LINK, AS OF MARCH 2024]