Black Lizard Books were published by Creative Arts Book Company in Berkeley, California during the 1980's. Their specialty was mystery/suspense, epecially hardboiled fiction. They reprinted writing giants such as: Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, Harry Whittington, Paul Cain, James M. Cain, Peter Rabe and Fredric Brown. The covers were surrealistic, nearly all painted by Kirwan. |