Hard Case Crime
| Founded | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Charles Ardai |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Key people | Max Phillips |
| Publication types | Books, Graphic novels, Comics |
| Fiction genres | Hard-boiled fiction |
| Owner(s) | Winterfall LLC, in collaboration with Dorchester Publishing (2004–2010); in collaboration with Titan Books (2011–present) |
Hard Case Crime is an American imprint of hardboiled crime novels founded in 2004 by Charles Ardai and Max Phillips. The series recreates, in editorial form and content, the flavor of the paperback crime novels of the 1940s and '50s. The covers feature original illustrations done in a style that was common for paperbacks of that era, credited to artists such as Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.