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 true hard-boiled detective novel. Featuring Race Williams, a private detective afraid of no man, it is a complex story of murder and inheritance in which Williams must outwit not only the police and a beautiful blonde cat burglar, but a homicidal maniac reputed to be bullet proof. Will his ready fists and forty-four revolvers be up to the task of confronting his foes against the background of deceit, double-crossing, and gunplay? And ultimately will he silence . . . The Snarl of the Beast?

The Snarl of the Beast: A Race Williams Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Daly, Carroll John

United States

Harpercollins

Stated first HarperPerennial edition. Trade paperback is in near fine condition. Black remainder mark at the edges of the bottom page block. Some dust spots to the edges of the page blocks. Mild toning to the page margins. A Race Williams Mystery.

The Hidden Hand: A Race Williams Mystery

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 true hard-boiled detective novel.  Featuring Race Williams, a private detective afraid of no man, it is a complex story of murder and inheritance in which Williams must outwit not only the police and a beautiful blonde cat burglar, but a homicidal maniac reputed to be bullet proof.  Will his ready fists and forty-four revolvers be up to the task of confronting his foes against the background of deceit, double-crossing, and gunplay?  And ultimately will he silence . . . The Snarl of the Beast?

The Snarl of the Beast (Gregg Press Mystery Fiction Series)

Gregg Press

Four stories describe Detective Frank "Satan" Hall's efforts to bring gang leaders, crooked politicians, influence peddlers, and corrupt policemen to justice

Adventures of Satan Hall (A Dime Detective Book)

Mysterious Pr

Stories feature Race Williams, a private detective of the 1920s, who never hesitates to killin the name of justice

The Adventures of Race Williams: A Dime Detective Book (DIME DETECTIVE PULP CLASSICS)

Dime Detective Magazine was second only to Black Mask as the dean of detective/P.I./hard-boiled pulp magazines, and was the home of Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, John D. MacDonald, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many other top-notch scribes. This book indexes all 274 issues of Dime Detective, contains several articles on the series and its writers, and as a bonus, the fifth anniversary round-robin story from the November 1936 issue, "The Tongueless Men," by William E. Barrett, Carroll John Daly, Frederick C. Davis, T.T. Flynn, and John Lawrence.

Dime Detective Companion

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Murray, Will

Moring, Matthew

LAWRENCE, JOHN

BARRETT, WILLIAM E.

Davis, Frederick C.

Lachman, Marvin

Traylor, James L.

Flynn, T.T.

Herridge, Monte

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Phantom Detective - Spring/50: Adventure House Presents:

Burks, Arthur J.

Cummings, Ray

Brister, Richard

Wallace,Robert

Gunnison,John P.

Daniels, Norman A.

Action & Adventure

Adventure House

Vivian “Vee” Brown leads two lives. Delicate-looking and small in stature, he lacks physical strength and endurance. But that doesn’t prevent him from being an effective special operative to the Manhattan District Attorney. In this capacity he often ignores the legal niceties of due process, shooting first and asking questions later. Many citizens view him as a hair-trigger gunman whose promiscuous killings make him little better than the vicious criminals he hunts. In his other life, Brown lives in a luxurious Park Avenue penthouse, paid for not with his modest civil-servant salary, but with the royalties he earns as a phenomenally successful composer of sentimental songs—a sideline he keeps secret. Both the police and the underworld refer to him as a “Killer of Men.” But the denizens of Tin Pan Alley know him as “Master of Melodies,” the prince of pop music. The creation of Carroll John Daly, father of the hard-boiled private eye, Vee Brown plied his trade in the page of Dime Detective, the classic crime pulp that was second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.

The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 1

Altus Press

Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask Magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled P.I. story and perfected the genre with his classic character Race Williams. Apart from the novel-length Race Williams stories, these classic hard-boiled thrillers have rarely been reprinted, if ever. Volume 1 contains the first 16 Race Williams stories, all from 1923-26 issues of Black Mask: ''Knights of the Open Palm,'' ''$3,000 to the Good,'' ''The Red Peril,'' ''Them That Lives By Their Guns,'' ''Devil Cat,'' ''The Face Behind the Mask,'' ''Conceited, Maybe,'' ''Say It With Lead!,'' ''I'll Tell the World,'' ''Alias Buttercup,'' ''Under Cover,'' ''South Sea Steel,'' ''The False Clara Burkhart,'' ''The Super-Devil,'' ''Half-Breed,'' and ''Blind Alleys.'' Three additional, early, first-person hard-boiled stories by Daly which laid the groundwork for the Race Williams are included as well: ''Dolly,'' ''Paying an Old Debt,'' and ''The False Burton Combs,'' as well as editorial pieces by Daly himself on his inspirations, writing style, and advice to prospective writers. And it's prefaced by an all-new, scholarly introduction by Professor Brooks Hefner of James Madison University. Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Volume 1 is the most important release in years on the history of the Hard-Boiled Detective story.

Them That Lives by Their Guns: Race Williams Volume 1

Millionaire Marty Day has lost it all. Destitute and desperate, his path crosses the mysterious RECKONER.... Created by Hard-Boiled legend Carroll John Daly, Day battled the Reckoner through four stories published between 1933 and 34 in the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.

The Complete Cases of The Reckoner (The Dime Detective Library)

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