Titan Gives Hard Case Crime New Shot

After parting ways with Dorchester Publishing last August and finding a new home at Titan Books in the fall, Hard Case Crime is back this season with four new titles. Founded in 2004 by award-winning novelists Charles Ardai and Max Phillips, Hard Case was started to revive the style of paperback crime novels that saw huge success in the 1940s and '50s. It published 66 titles in its six-year partnership with Dorchester, and though it doesn't release sales figures, Ardai, editor of Hard Case Crime, said its bestselling title was by far The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, which had an initial print run in excess of one million copies.