The first hard-boiled detective character, "Three-Gun" Terry Mack is collected for the first time. This groundbreaking series from the pages of
Black Mask
magazine set the template for all
authors to follow. Written by Carroll John Daly, Terry Mack debuted just two months prior to Daly's most famous creation, Race Williams. Williams' popularity with
readers doomed Terry Mack after just two stories, but Daly revisited the character a few years later for a full-length novel,
The Man in the Shadows.
This edition contains both Terry Mack short stories, along with
The Man in the Shadows,
which has never before been reprinted. Includes an all-new introduction by Evan Lewis.