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THE EMPEROR OF EVIL.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-302, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. The second mystery novel featuring detective Vee (Vivian) Brown who takes on the Black Death organization. Daly was an important contributor to Black Mask and published stories into the 1950s. He influence can be seen in many writers who followed him. "Daly’s contribution to the hardboiled genre was indeed monumental; far more than simply being the first at bat. And his impact was felt far beyond the private eye field alone. The Shadow, The Spider, The Phantom Detective—all the famous masked avengers of the pulps were merely gussied up versions of Race Williams. Daly took the two-gun American Hero from the wooly plains of the West and transplanted him in New York. He allowed his hero to retain all those traditional fantasy concepts of what the American Hero is and has been since the days of Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, and he gave him the desire and ability to back up his code of individualism, his distrust of authority and his interest in Justice over Legality, with a pair of smoking .44s." from "In Defense of Carroll John Daly" - Steve Mertz in The Mystery FANcier, May 1978 (Vol. 2, No. 3). Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE HIDDEN HAND.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii 9-319 [320: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top stained dark blue. First edition. An episodic novel first published in Black Mask, featuring Race Williams. Race is on the trail of a crime organization headed by "The Hidden Hand," a super criminal. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE HIDDEN HAND.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii 9-319 [320: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top edge stained dark blue. First edition. An episodic novel first published in Black Mask, featuring Race Williams. Race is on the trail of a crime organization headed by "The Hidden Hand," a super criminal. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MR. STRANG.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-290 [291-294: blank], original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. First published in Detective Fiction Weekly as a series of novelettes, Mr. Strang metes out vigilante justice. "Mr. Strang is the punch packing story of a mysterious individual who sets out single handedly to break up the racket of Parole." from the jacket copy. Mr. Strang had further adventures in the pulp magazine. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MR. STRANG.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-290 [291-294: blank], original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. First published in Detective Fiction Weekly as a series of novelettes, Mr. Strang metes out vigilante justice. "Mr. Strang is the punch packing story of a mysterious individual who sets out single handedly to break up the racket of Parole." from the jacket copy. Mr. Strang had further adventures in the pulp magazine. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MURDER FROM THE EAST: A RACE WILLIAMS STORY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-312, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Race Williams adventure. Race Williams battles foreign agents. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MURDER FROM THE EAST: A RACE WILLIAMS STORY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-312, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Race Williams adventure. Race Williams battles foreign agents. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MURDER WON'T WAIT.
New York: Ives Washburn, Publisher, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-307 [308-310: blank], original light green cloth front stamped in blind, spine stamp in black and design. First edition. A Vee Brown novel. Vee (Vivian) Brown is a detective who works directly for the District Attorney's office and was well off due to the writing original popular music. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MYSTERY OF THE SMOKING GUN.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi {vii-viii] 1-312, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Detective Frank "Satan" Hall novel, which first appeared as five novelettes in Detective Fiction Weekly (1933) pulp magazine. Satan Hall is a New York city police detective who takes on a ruthless crime boss. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
MYSTERY OF THE SMOKING GUN.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company:, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi {vii-viii] 1-312, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A Detective Frank "Satan" Hall novel, which first appeared as five novelettes in Detective Fiction Weekly (1933) pulp magazine. Satan Hall is a New York city police detective who takes on a ruthless crime boss. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
READY TO BURN.
London: Museum Press, n.d., [1951]. Octavo, original black cloth, spine stamped in silver and red. First edition. A Detective Frank "Satan" Hall novel, originally published as three short novels in Detective Fiction Weekly (1934-1935). Not published in the U. S. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE TAG MURDERS.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii [ix-x] 11-320, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. An episodic novel first published in Black Mask, featuring Race Williams. Race is on the trail of a murderer who leaves a metal tag pinned on the victims. This book also has the first appearance of Race Williams femme fatale, "The Flame," Florence Drummond, "The girl with the criminal mind." Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE THIRD MURDERER.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-308 [309-312: blank], original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. A Race Williams novel, from the pages of Black Mask. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
THE WHITE CIRCLE.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [7-8] 9-312, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in white and black, top edge stained black. First edition. The author's first crime novel. First published in Flynn's magazine in 1925 as "The White Champion." Down on his luck adventurer agrees to become a masked hero, "The White Circle" and fight crime in New York. Hubin, pp. 210-211.
TWO-GUN GERTA.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-11] 12-252 [253: note to the reader] [254-256: blank] [note: pagination starts using the paste down], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. Western novel. First published book by Daly.