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Before Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Before Dashiell Hammett's The Red Harvest, there was Carroll John Daly's The Snarl of the Beast, the first tr...
Race Williams #6 (Black Mask)
Class was stamped on every contour of her body, but the faint wisp of fear clung to her person. Gladys Pervins was a woman who had slipped on the path...
Race Williams #4 (Black Mask)
"Mr. Cardigan... if we come to terms, I'll go and fetch your daughter back. I don't want to be considered a killer, but if your son-in-law is as quick...
Race Williams #5 (Black Mask)
Hard-boiled detective Race Williams investigates the strangest murder of his career. Another classic from the pages of Black Mask Magazine. Story #5 i...
Race Williams #17 (Black Mask)
Who is the criminal known only as “The Beast?” Too baffling for the police to solve, it becomes a manhunt in which detective Race Williams must tr...
Race Williams #3 (Black Mask)
For the first time, Race Williams encounters the mysterious masked Red Peril in the biggest case of his hard-boiled career thus far. Story #3 in the R...
Race Williams #8 (Black Mask)
Race Williams was a man not above using a gun, nor of making a quick buck. But there was one other—Sticker Haddock—who enjoyed murder like one doe...
Race Williams #2 (Black Mask)
Race Williams—the classic hard-boiled detective from the pages of Black Mask Magazine—takes on the biggest blackmailing scheme of his career. Plus...
Picking up from where our last issue left off, we have another group of crime stories written especially for us. Starting with ex-police detective Lis...
Race Williams #19 (Black Mask)
Race Williams had run across criminals before, and a few shots to the head always took care of such threats. But how can Race deal with four separate ...
Race Williams #10 (Black Mask)
Mexican Joe was a sore eye and a bad tooth to the New York City Police Department. So, when he spread-eagled out of a twenty-second story window of a ...
Race Williams #18 (Black Mask)
An envelope full of money and a request to join his client at a tough nightclub downtown brings Race Williams face to face with many of the swarthy fa...
Race Williams #1 (Black Mask)
The first hard-boiled detective Race Williams, runs up against the Klan in his premiere adventure, which leads him to fast and tragic action. Plus two...
Race Williams #7 (Black Mask)
Race Williams is a man who likes the study people—read ‘em like a book. So, when Mr. Riverity Coe shows up seeking a bodyguard for his beautiful f...
Race Williams #20 (Black Mask)
Race Williams thought he had seen it all until he came face to face with the mystery of The Tag Murderer: the killer who left metal emblems pinned to ...
Race Williams #16 (Black Mask)
Five one-hundred-dollar bills call Race Williams to an appointment. When he starts he hasn't the least idea what it's all about, and the further he ge...
Race Williams #9 (Black Mask)
Race Williams was as free from money as an old maid from a pleasant thought. And the sweltering heat of the city only added to his anger, like a ragin...
Race Williams #13 (Black Mask)
Race Williams wouldn’t touch a divorce case with a ten-foot pole. But when Mr. Burkhart, the prosperous owner of the well-known Burkhart & Co. publi...
"Better stay out of this… It will mean death for you—sure,” grunts a ruthless thug. But Three Gun Terry is not one to back down from a fight, es...
Race Williams #11 (Black Mask)
When Race Williams receives a note to meet in the dead hours of the night on an abandoned roadside, he is leery of the setup. And then a mysterious ca...
Race Williams #12 (Black Mask)
Race Williams is in Honolulu for a little R&R. Whether it be the eloquent “waxing” of a fat and florid businessman or the devil-may-care attitude ...
A Race Williams Mystery
Private investigator Race Williams is approached by a larger detective agency to help hunt down a criminal gang leader, but he turns down the deal bec...
Race Williams #14 (Black Mask)
The mean streets have never been so divided, nor so willing, to pay Race Williams for his services. So when private investigators start turning up dea...
A chance meeting in the night brings together New York City’s roughest private eye Three Gun Terry and runt-of-a-millionaire John Rogo. Over a cup o...
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue. This time around, it includes nine new stories in the Bl...
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The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams
Volume 3 contains the next batch of Race Williams stories, all from 1929-31 as Daly continued publishing serialized novels in Black Mask. Included her...
Saddle up for an exhilarating journey through the rugged terrain of the Wild West with Two-Gun Gerta, a Western masterpiece by the trailblazing hardbo...
Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask Magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective P.I. sto...
Facsimile Edition
Dime Detective magazine was the flagship detective pulp in the Popular Publications stable, running for almost 300 issues over twenty years. The Augus...
The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Volume 7
Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective P.I. sto...
John Carroll Daly was a popular pulp author of the early 20th century. His 'Knights of the Open Palm', published in 1923 in Black Mask magazine, is se...
The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Volume 6
Better Corpses first published in 1940, is a classic hard-boiled detective murder mystery featuring private investigator Race Williams. Williams, oper...
A Race Williams Story
The Complete Cases of Satan Hall, Volume 2