Them That Lives by Their Guns: Race Williams Volume 1 - Softcover

Daly, Carroll John; Moring, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1618272144 ISBN 13: 9781618272140

Publisher: Altus Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Carroll John Daly (1889-1958) was the creator of the first hardboiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op story by several months.

Edition details

• Publisher: Altus Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1618272144
• ISBN 13: 9781618272140
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 684