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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