Stephen King has agreed to write the lead title for Winterfall LLC's 2006 Hard Case Crime line. The new line of pulp fiction paperback crime novels features cool retro/noir covers by such artists as Robert McGinnis, who did the posters for the original Sean Connery James Bond movies. King's contribution to the series will be entitled The Colorado Kid, and tells the story of two veteran newspapermen and their investigation into the mysterious death of a man on an island off the coast of Maine. Other authors who are featured in the line are Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, Ed McBain, Donald E. Westlake, Erle Stanley Gardner and Donald Hamilton.
