Description
Quite simply, Black Mask magazine is the most important Detective fiction magazine ever published, printing the most significant works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner, among others over its 20-year life. This facsimile of the September 1929 issue represents Black Mask at its peak with the first installment of The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, along with stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, Horace McCoy, Frederick Nebel, and Raoul Whitfield.
By Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, Erle Stanley Gardner, Frederick Nebel, Henry Wallace Phillips, Lester Reynard, Raoul F. Whitfield, and Eugene Cunningham; illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker and Henry C. Murphy, Jr.
Contains the following stories:
- “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett
- “Dirty Work” by Horace McCoy
- “Hanging Friday” by Erle Stanley Gardner
- “New Guns for Old” by Frederick Nebel
- “The Pets” by Henry Wallace Phillips
- “He’s Give the Works” by Lester Reynard
- “Laughing Death: The Squeeze” by Raoul F. Whitfield
- “Bar Nuthin’, Puzzle Buster” by Eugene Cunningham
