Black Lizard was a publisher during the 1980s. An imprint of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the decades between the 1930s and the 1960s. Creative Arts Book Company was founded by Don Ellis in 1966. Creative Arts filed for bankruptcy protection in 2003. A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... MacGyver - 1980s hero The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Bandleader Don Ellis (July 25, 1934 - December 17, 1978) consistently explored the area of unusual time signatures. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Creative Arts was best known for its Black Lizard imprint. Founded and edited by writer Barry Gifford, Black Lizard released over ninety books between 1984 and 1990, including reprints of classic novels by Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Peter Rabe, Harry Whittington, Dan J. Marlowe, Charles Williams, and Lionel White, as well as original novels by Barry Gifford and Jim Nisbet. Lizard is single-handedly responsible for renewing the interest in pulp master Jim Thompson in the late 1980s, long after his death, which resulted in several film adaptations of his novels. The original series were mass-market paperbacks with covers drawn by Kirwan. Barry Gifford (1946- ) is an author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes, film noir, and beat generation-influenced literary madness. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Charles Willeford Charles Willeford was born 2 January 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... David Goodis (1917–1967) was a popular American noir writer. ... The cover of Teen-age Jungle (originally published as Sinners Club (1954). ... Lionel White (1905-1995) was a book author whos dark noirish stories were sometimes made into films. ... Barry Gifford (1946- ) is an author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes, film noir, and beat generation-influenced literary madness. ... Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as the pulps ) were inexpensive fiction magazines. ... James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory–April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels, largely of the pulp fiction kind. ... MacGyver - 1980s hero The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...

Barry Gifford's relationship with Black Lizard is also sometimes credited with having first applied the term noir fiction to a certain sub-genre of hardboiled fiction. Thus, in an introduction writtern by Gifford to the Black Lizard editions of Jim Thompson's novels in 1984, Gifford writes: "The French seem to appreciate best Thompson's brand of terror. Roman noir, literally 'black novel,' is a term reserved especially for novelists such as Thompson, Cornell Woolrich and David Goodis. Only Thompson, however, fulfills the French notion of both noir and maudit, the accursed and self-destructive. It is an unholy picture that Thompson presents. As the British critic Nick Kimberley has written, 'This is a godless world,' populated by persons 'for whom murder is a casual chore.'" Gifford's use of the term noir in this context resulted in a term that is narrower in scope than that used by the French roman noir as applied to fiction. Barry Gifford (1946- ) is an author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes, film noir, and beat generation-influenced literary madness. ... Hardboiled crime fiction is a uniquely American style pioneered by Dashiell Hammett, refined by Raymond Chandler, and endlessly imitated since by writers such as Mickey Spillane. ... Hardboiled crime fiction is a uniquely American style pioneered by Dashiell Hammett, refined by Raymond Chandler, and endlessly imitated since by writers such as Mickey Spillane. ... James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory–April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels, largely of the pulp fiction kind. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 - September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer. ... David Goodis (1917–1967) was a popular American noir writer. ... Noir could refer to: Noir is the French language word for black. Film noir is a genre of movie. ...

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 the originally published books were replaced by mainstream-friendly writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, as well as numerous contemporary authors. 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 been allowed to fall out of print and have remained so since the early 1990s. Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. ... This article is about the year. ... Mainstream is, generally, the common current of thought of the majority. ... Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. ... Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American author of crime stories and novels. ... James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and crime writer. ... A trade paperback can refer to any book that is bound with a heavy paper cover that is generally cheaper than the hardcover but more expensive than the regular paperback version. ... Black-and-white (or variations including Black and White) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...

By the time of its acquisition by Random House, Black Lizard had issued the following novels:Cover Illustrations, with three exceptions are by Jim Kirwan Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. ...

 * After Dark My Sweet (Jim Thompson) * Agreement to Kill (Peter Rabe) * The Alcoholics (Jim Thompson) * Black Friday (David Goodis) * Black Mass of Brother Springer (Charles Willeford) * Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (Ed Gorman, ed.) * Second Black Lizard Anthology (Ed Gorman, ed.) * Blood on the Dining Room Floor (Gertrude Stein) * Burnt Orange Heresey (Charles Willeford) * Carny Kill (Robert Edmund Alter) * Cassidy’s Girl (David Goodis) * Coffin and Co. (Roger L. Simon) * Cockfighter (Charles Willeford) * The Criminal (Jim Thompson) * Cropper’s Cabin (Jim Thompson) * The Damned Don’t Die (Jim Nisbet) * Dead Meat (Roger L. Simon) * Death Puppet (Jim Nisbet) * Detour (Helen Nielsen) * The Devil Wears his Wings (Harry Whittington) * Dig My Grave Deep (Peter Rabe) * The Far Cry (Frederic Brown) * Fast One (Paul Cain) * Fires That Destroy (Harry Whittington) * Forgive Me Killer (Harry Whittington) * The Getaway (Jim Thompson) * Goodbye L. A. (Murray Sinclair) * The Grifters (Jim Thompson) * A Hell of a Woman (Jim Thompson) * His Name was Death (Frederic Brown) * I Wake up Screaming (Steve Fisher) * Ill Wind (W. L. Heath) * Jealous Woman (James M. Cain) * Kill the Boss Goodbye (Peter Rabe) * The Killing (Lionel White) * Lethal Injection (Jim Nisbet) * Low Bite (Sin Soracco) * Masques (Bill Pronzini) * A Moment to Prey (Harry Whittington) * The Name of the Game is Death (Dan Marlowe) * Never Live Twice (Dan Marlowe) * Nightfall (David Goodis) * Night Squad (David Goodis) * Nothing More than Murder (Jim Thompson) * Only in L. A. (Murray Sinclair) * The Out is Death (Peter Rabe) * Perversity (Francis Carco) * Pick-up (Charles Willeford) * Pop. 1280 (Jim Thompson) * Port Tropique (Barry Gifford) * Recoil (Jim Thompson) * The Root of his Evil (James M. Cain) * Running of the Beasts (Bill Pronzini and Barry Malzberg) * Savage Night (Jim Thompson) * Seven Slayers (Paul Cain) * Shoot the Piano Player (David Goodis) * Silk Stalkings (Susan Thompson and Victoria Nichols) * Sinful Woman (James M. Cain) * Sing me a Murder (Helen Nielsen) * The Straight Man (Kent Nelson) * Street of No Return (David Goodis) * Strongarm (Dan Marlowe) * Swamp Sister (Robert Edmund Alter) * A Swell Looking Babe (Jim Thompson) * A Ticket to Hell (Harry Whittington) * Tough Luck in L. A. (Murry Sinclair) * The Truth of the Matter (John Lutz) * Vengeance Man (Dan Marlowe) * Violent Saturday (W. L. Heath) * Web of Murder (Harry Whittington) * Wild Town (Jim Thompson) * You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up (Eric Knight) 

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Whittington (born March 3, 1927) is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas who became an internationally recognized figure on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail on a Corpus Christi... James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory–April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels, largely of the pulp fiction kind. ... James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory–April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels, largely of the pulp fiction kind. ... James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory–April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels, largely of the pulp fiction kind. ... 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Whittington (born March 3, 1927) is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas who became an internationally recognized figure on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail on a Corpus Christi... John Lutz (born 1939) is an american writer who mainly writes mystery novels. ... Harry M. Whittington (born March 3, 1927) is an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure from Austin, Texas who became an internationally recognized figure on February 11, 2006, when he was accidentally shot in the face by Vice President Dick Cheney while hunting quail on a Corpus Christi... James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory–April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels, largely of the pulp fiction kind. ... 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External links

• Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• List of books originally published
• Covers by Kirwan