
Author: Seattle Mystery Bookshop
January 1977 Vintage paperback original, 1st printing

January 1977 Vintage paperback original, 1st printing
edited and with an introduction by Herbert Ruhm
Carroll John Daly, “The False Burton Combs” (Dec, 1922)
Peter Collinson, “The Road Home” (Dashiell Hammettt, Dec, 1922)
Dashiell Hammett, “The Gutting of Couffignal” (Dec, 1925)
Norbert Davis, “Kansas City Flash” (Mar, 1933)
Frederick Nebel, “Take It and Like It” (June, 1934)
Raymond Chandler, “Goldfish” (June, 1936)
Lester Dent, “Angelfish” (Dec, 1936)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Leg Man” (Feb, 1938)
George Harmon Coxe, “Once Around the Clock” (May, 1941)
Merle Constiner, “The Turkey Buzzard Blues” (July, 1943)
William Brandon, “It’s So Peaceful in the Country” (Nov, 1943)
Curt Hamlin, “Killer Come Home” (his only Black Mask story, July, 1948)
Paul W. Fairman, “Big-Time Operator” (his only Black Mask story, July, 1948)
Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace” (May, 1949)
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February 1935 issue ~ cover art by Jerome Rozen
1930s advertisement

artwork by Percy Edward Anderson
no self-respecting private eye should be without one
July 1931 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell
The Enforcer, 1951

The Enforcer, 1951
June 1938 issue ~ cover art by Emery Clarke
February 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig
1963 Permabook reissue ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis

1962 Simon & Schuster hardcover
cover art by Robert McGinnis
16th in this long-running series




