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Seven Slayers 

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Paul CainSeven Slayers (1946)
A collection of stories by Paul Cain

 
Seven brutally ingenius tales of murder passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled.

There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way from the station. There's the glamorous Bella, whose boyfriends have the distressing habit of stabbing one another while she naps in the next room. And of course there's Johnny Doolin, who hires himself out as a bodyguard-only to find that his client has no interest in staying alive.

The men and women in Seven Slayers are exactly what the title promises: people who kill for love or money or for the sheer, perverse joy of homicide. And this riveting collection is one of the few surviving books by Paul Cain (aka Peter Ruric, aka George Sims), a hard-drinking, enigmatic writer of the 1930s who had as many pseudonyms as he had wives and of whom Raymond Chandler wrote that he had reached in his fiction "a high point in the hard-boiled manner."

 
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Hardback Editions

November 1988 : Hardback
Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 0-948353-32-5 / 978-0-948353-32-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: No Exit Press
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June 1987 : Hardback
Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 0-940941-03-1 / 978-0-940941-03-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Blood & Guts Press
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January 1987 : Hardback
Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 0-940941-04-X / 978-0-940941-04-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Blood and Guts Press
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1950 : Hardback
Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul CAIN
Publisher: Avon
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Paperback Editions

August 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1596546778Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 1-59654-677-8 / 9781596546776 (USA edition)
Publisher: Black Mask
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August 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1596541083Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 1-59654-108-3 / 9781596541085 (USA edition)
Publisher: blackmask.com
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April 1994 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0887390773Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 0-88739-077-3 / 978-0-88739-077-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Books
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March 1994 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0679751858Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 0-679-75185-8 / 978-0-679-75185-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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November 1988 : Paperback
Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
ISBN: 0-948353-33-3 / 978-0-948353-33-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: No Exit Press
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January 1987 : Paperback
Title: SEVEN SLAYERS
Author(s): Paul Cain
Publisher: Unknown
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January 1950 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
Publisher: Avon (Canadian)
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October 2008 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B004I1KAFCTitle: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
Publisher: Oak Grove
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October 2008 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B001H5SITMTitle: Seven Slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
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January 1988 : Unknown
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January 1950 : Unknown
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1946 : Unknown
Title: Seven slayers
Author(s): Paul Cain
Publisher: Saint Enterprises
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