Horace Stanley McCoy (18971955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including They Shoot Horses, Dont They? (1935) and the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCoy is now recognized as a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. He died in Beverly Hills, California, in 1955.
Novels
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935)
No Pockets in a Shroud (1937)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948)
I Should Have Stayed Home (1951)
Scalpel (1953)
Corruption City (1959)
No Pockets in a Shroud (1937)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948)
I Should Have Stayed Home (1951)
Scalpel (1953)
Corruption City (1959)
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Books containing stories by Horace McCoy
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007)
Forty-Five of the Best Stories to Come Out of the Pulps During Their Golden Age
edited by
Otto Penzler
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