Product Description: Little is known about the life of writer George Carrol Sims, who used the pseudonyms Paul Cain for his pulp career, and Peter Ruric for his tasks as a screenwriter. Sims was that rarest of creatures--a successful novelist and Hollywood scribe...read more

Product Description: Fast One was originally a collection of stories featuring the gambler/gunman Kells. The tales ran in Black Mask Magazine from 1931-1932. This work has been occasionally republished, most recently as a graphic novel by no exit press.

Product Description: For the first time ever!-two hardboiled classics!-joined at last! First published in 1933, Fast One is the roughest novel of the Black Mask school-praised by Chandler!-hailed by Captain Shaw! A searing tale of underworld Los Angeles, where the only crime is loving too much! To live outside the law you must be honest! Seven Slayers contains seven of Cain's very best short stories written for Black Mask! Each one a pip and a prize! Together in an attractive, readable edition-and for a very low cost-these two books comprise the Omnibus! George Carrol Sims wrote for Black Mask under the nom de guerre Paul Cain...read more

Product Description: This novel is about Frank Grant, the seventh son and the eleventh child, of Michael and Mary Grant. He was just one short of a dozen. And to coin a phrase, his life was pretty much the same. "A day late and a dollar short" Being born four years prior to America entering the Second World War, when his mother was in her mid forties, and during the nineteen thirty-seven flood that devastated Louisville, Kentucky...read more

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