Race Williams' Double Date and Other Stories

“It’s fascinating to read these compelling, powerful stories from the father of the private eye genre, written in the shadow of his successful son, Mickey Spillane.”—Max Allan Collins, Edgar Award winning author of Road to PerditionFor two and a half decades Carroll John Daly was a driving force in crime fiction, inventing the hard-boiled school of detection. Stories of his character Race Williams are unrivaled in their headlong pace and breathtaking action.Finally, nine of the best stories by one of the most influential detective writers of the past century are collected in this volume showcasing his storytelling ability at its peak.“Two men invented the hard-boiled detective story: Carroll John Daly and Dashiell Hammett.”—Lee Server, Danger Is My BusinessSelected and with a foreword by Stephen MertzIntroduction by Evan Lewis