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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. First Printing. 1st Printing. Trade papeback, fine in shrinkwrap. Published in association with Black Mask Press. 18 stories. Also includes two introductions by E. R. Hagemann, one of hardboiled fictions best critics and most devoted reader. Also includes a publication history and A Bibliography of Whitfield works appearing in Black Mask. Ellery Queen wrote: "Whitfield is a much too neglected member of the Hammett-Chandler hardboiled school." Dashiell Hammett himself praised the Whitfield stories for their "naked action pounded into tough compactness by staccato, hammerlike writing." Previously announced but long delayed (as we searched for more stories) Jo Gar's Casebook is the first collection of Whitfield's extraordinary tales. In the February 1930 issue of Black Mask, a new character was introduced to the American detective story. Jo Gar was both a classic "thinking" sleuth and a tough man of action who inhabited an exotic noir world on the Philippines, facing a rogue's gallery of colorful villains from mixed-race Chinese to upper-crust American exiles. "The Little Island Detective" lived in a vivid world of pre-war Asia where typhoons threatened the harbor, criminals escaped from the local prison, and the waterfront was home to cut-throats from all countries. Throughout the 1930's, Raoul Whitfield was a star contributor to Black Mask -- only Erle Stanley Gardner appeared more often. The cover and design are by neo-pulp artist Tom Roberts. Roberts, Tom (illustrator). Trade Paperback.…

Hardcover. First edition; Limited edition, 64/225. Octavo, 282 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white print. Price label on front flap unclipped: "$45.00". Boards blue cloth. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait, text drawings. Signed in ink by the editor and by the cover artist Tom Roberts on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1403037. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Condition: FINE. Limited, signed first edition. #118 of 225 clothbound copies, individually numbered and SIGNED by both the editor, Keith Alan Deutsch, and the designer, Tom Roberts on the limitation page opposite the title page. Collects 18 stories featuring Jo Gar, the 'island detective' - that is, the Philippine Islands. Includes two introductions by E. R. Hagemann, "Black Mask's greatest outlaw scholar" and a remembrance of Hagemann by W. H. Miller, a publication history and an annotated bibliography of Whitfield works appearing in Black Mask. A title in the Tales from the Black Mask Morgue Series. 282 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads and the colophon. Laid in is a separate 14 pp pamphlet, fine in stapled illustrated wrappers, with the story "Scotty Scouts Around." Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.).…

Paperback. Condition: New. Paperback. Book Condition: New. MysteriousPress/Open Road, 2014. 434 pages. Crisp Firm Clean copy ! Size: 8 x 5.2 x 1. Contents: Death at the Main. Ask Me Another. Rain, the Killer. Death on Eagle's Crag. Dog Show Murder. Death Sits Down. Forced Landing. State Fair Murder. Funny Man. Oliver Quade At the Races. Words and Music. Black Mask Crime Review. Behind the Black Mask. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 0400. …