THE SNARL OF THE BEAST

by Carroll John Daly

$375 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Edward J. Clode, 1927. First Edition. Daly's second novel, first serialized in the pages of Black Mask between June-September, 1927, introducing tough-guy detective Race Williams. Daly 1889-1958 is credited with pioneering the hard-boiled genre, writing in a vernacular style so resonant with readers that it shifted Black Mask's focus from traditional mystery fiction to hard-boiled crime fiction. His Race Williams

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