Party Murder: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Dal Prentice, Volume 2

In the toughest corners of Magna City, Detective Dal Prentice knows that every "routine" call can blow up into a war. Party Murder: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Dal Prentice, Volume 2, concludes Roger Torrey's hard-hitting series about one of the pulpiest cops to stalk the pages of Black Mask magazine. These stories deliver everything readers expect from the legendary detective pulp: clipped dialogue, sudden violence, crooked operators, and a city that never stays clean for long. Prentice and his fellow officers push back against rackets, political pressure, and the kind of backroom deals that get men killed, all in Torrey's lean, driving prose. Long unavailable, the Dal Prentice stories are once again in print, preserving a crucial chapter in the history of hard-boiled crime fiction and the magazine that helped define it.