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Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective 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 6 contains 11 Race Williams stories, all from 1938-41, as Daly closed out his lengthiest period of penning new Race Williams stories for Dime Detective Magazine.It's also prefaced by an all-new, scholarly introduction by Professor Brooks E. Hefner of James Madison University. Gangman's Gallows: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Volume 6 continues this most important series published in years on the history of the Hard-Boiled Detective story.