One of the most popular private detective series from the pages of Flynn’s Detective Fiction is finally collected in book form. Author Edward Parrish Ware’s stories of former-cowboy-turned detective Tug Norton ran for nearly 50 short stories and novelettes which recounted the cases of the Kaw Valley Detective Bureau of Kansas City, and are frequently considered some of the best hard-boiled detective stories so see print in Flynn’s. Volume 1 contains the first six stories, along with all of the original illustrations.
Written by Edward Parrish Ware; illustrated by F.M. Follett; cover by Lejaren Hiller
The Argosy Library #130
The Fifth Gate: The Complete Cases of Tug Norton, Volume 1 (The Argosy Library) by Edward Parrish Ware contains the following stories:
- “The Tree-Top Trail”
- “The Fifth Gate”
- “Rock Salt”
- “The Riverton Tangle”
- “Beneficial Fires”
- “The Queen’s Patteran”
