Bailbondsman William "Bail-Bond" Dodd was the first series character that hard-boiled genius Norbert Davis created for Harry Steeger's best detective pulp. Running for eight installments, Volume 2 collects the balance of the series. This unique series was one of the best Davis ever wrote for 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 Bail-Bond Dodd, Volume 2 (The Dime Detective Library)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Davis, Norbert

Mystery

Steeger Books

Meet the original necrologist sleuth: tall, gaunt Ho Humberton was a funeral director by day and detective at night... often those with more than a touch of the supernatural. Featuring the first half of this trend-setting detective series, this was one of the most popular series characters from the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. Also featuring the very first Horatio Humberton story, undiscovered for nearly 100 years.

The Complete Cases of Horatio Humberton, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)

Suter, J. Paul

The Complete Cases of Anne Marsh (The Dime Detective Library)

Zagat, Arthur Leo

Written at the height of Dime Detective's popularity, author William E. Barrett (Lilies of the Field) penned this series featuring newspaperman Dean Culver, whose column-The Blue Barrel-dispensed gossip on the criminal underworld. No one called Dean Culver the Blue Barrel-for no one knew he was the author of the underworld-gossip column signed with that name each night in the Morning Star. If the easy-money players had ever guessed that the man who paid them off was the Walter Winchell of the other side of the law, he'd he cashing in his own checks at the first turn of the wheel, instead of those of the gamblers he spun it for.The Blue Barrel appeared in the mid-1930s within 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 Blue Barrel, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)

BARRETT, WILLIAM E.

Detective Todd Naughton of the central-office arson squad investigated some of the strangest arson and murder cases ever to appear in Dime Detective Magazine. Originally seeing print during the peak 1936-37 period of Dime Detective, this four-story complete series has never before been reprinted.Author Leslie T. White was a real-life, longtime law-enforcement officer, with his most high-profile employment as an investigator for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office in the late 1920s serving as the basis for his autobiographical 1936 book, Me, Detective.The Arson Dick is certainly one of the lost classics from 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 Arson Dick (The Dime Detective Library)

White, Leslie T.

Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask Magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective 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 5 contains the first 11 Race Williams stories, all from 1935-38, as Daly left his long-time home of Black Mask for its main competitor, Dime Detective. And it's prefaced by an all-new, scholarly introduction by Professor Brooks E. Hefner of James Madison University.Just Another Stiff: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Volume 5 continues this most important series published in years on the history of the Hard-Boiled Detective story.

Just Another Stiff: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Volume 5

Daly, Carroll John

Nuala O'Malley is one of the earliest novels by the "King of the Pulps"-H. Bedford-Jones-to appear in the influential All-Story Weekly. Another of the author's popular historical sagas, this is a stirring, entrancing story of Erin when Cromwell was campaigning, and when the fighting heritage that is every Irishman's found vent through sword and ax and fire. You meet Brian Buidh, Brian of the Yellow Hair, more thrilling than even your favorite movie hero; and as for Nuala herself?.

Nuala O'Malley: A Story of Ireland (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)

Literature & Fiction

Bedford-Jones, H.

Genre Fiction

A blue bead, marked with an Arabian sign, started it-but, three men dies in two days because of this seemingly harmless ornament. The message it carried aroused a great secret organization and sent the narrator with the girl he loved? and Solomon?. Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones' longest-running series character, with this next book in the series.

Solomon's Quest: The Adventures of John Solomon, Volume 3 (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)

A pioneer of the fantastic fiction genre that spawned a thousand imitators, Perley Poore Sheehan was one of the most popular authors of the pulps of the 1910s-30s. This oversized edition collects four of Sheehan's best stories from the pages of the All-Story and Argosy—stories which have never before been reprinted—and it's headlined by his fantasy classic "The Woman from the Pyramid": Carlton, an Egyptologist encounters the woman who's been haunting him in his dreams, and in his quest to learn who she is, he finds himself thrown five thousand years in the past, reincarnated as an Egyptian nobleman. Collecting the "The Woman of the Pyramid," as well as "The Lone Seminole," The One Gift," and "Egrets."

The Woman of the Pyramid and Other Tales: The Perley Poore Sheehan Omnibus, Volume 1 (The Argosy Library)

Sheehan, Perley Poore

This first of two omnibus collections of pulp classics by science fiction pioneer Garrett P. Serviss, which originally appeared in the pages of The All-Story magazine.A Columbus of Space: A trip to Venus brings a group of explorers into contact with the inhabitants of that mysterious planet... and if they can survive the dangers they pose, they'll need to figure out an escape back to earth. An early science fiction classic.The Moon Metal: After the collapse of the gold market and the world in an economic collapse, a mysterious doctor offers the world a new financial standard: the rare metal, artemsium. But just what is the secret of this new metal?

A Columbus of Space and The Moon Metal: The Garrett P. Serviss Omnibus, Volume 1 (The Argosy Library)

Serviss, Garrett P.

Thrillers & Suspense

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