Charles Ardai
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Charles Ardai is founder and editor of Hard Case Crime (www.hardcasecrime.com) and a winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Shamus Award for his own crime fiction. He is also a writer and producer on the television series HAVEN and created the Internet service Juno.

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Design Friday: 7 Sexy Crime Book Covers

86 Comments | Posted October 7, 2011 | 08:35 AM (EST)

Back in the 1940s and 50s, there was an explosion in the popularity of paperback crime novels, triggered mainly by the success of Mickey Spillane's first Mike Hammer opus, "I, The Jury" (You think Harry Potter's huge, or "The Da Vinci Code?" Hammer had them both beat. At one point,...

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