THE HARD-BOILED OMNIBUS: EARLY STORIES FROM BLACK MASK Edited with an Introduction

by Joseph T. Shaw by Joseph Shaw

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First edition

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946 . Octavo, pp. i-v vi-ix x xi-xii 1-2 3-468, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories from the most influential of the early detective pulps, BLACK MASK, which gave rise in the 1930s to the lean and mean hard-boiled school of detective writing. Stories, first published between 1929 and 1936, by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Raoul Whitfield, Lester Dent and others, with

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