STEEGER BOOKS/ALTUS PRESS SALE - Last Call!

Yeah, it's do-or-die time the Steeger Sale. Get your orders in by midnight! Publisher Matt Moring introduced 34 new books just for this event (boy, does he have eyestrain!) and below are some I can particularly recommend. See them all - and his hundreds of other great books at https://steegerbooks.com/

Need I say more?

Been itching for this to begin for a LONG time!

Great stories, with an Intro by me.

From the creator of Hashknife Hartley & Sleepy Stevens.

Have you read his Cellini Smith series?

The Master of Men strikes again.

The adventures of a hardboiled cab driver.

From the Tros of Samothrace guy.

Flynn was one of Cap Shaw's Black Mask Boys.

From the creator of Thibaut Corday.

A cool wannabe Kimosabe, with an Intro by James Reasoner.

Forgotten Stories: OVER THE WALL by John K. Butler (read it here!)

When I posted the Cleve F. Adams story "Smart Guy" a while back (HERE), Cary Jennings suggested I devote some attention to another neglected pulp writer, John K. Butler. Well, I think that's a fine idea. Thanks, Cary!

For most of us, John K. Butler blipped onto our hardboiled radar thanks to Mr. Ron Goulart, when he wisely included the Dime Detective story "A Saint in Silver" in his 1965 anthology The Hardboiled Dicks. (For that matter, the same could be said of Frederick Nebel, Norbert Davis, Richard Sale, Raoul Whitifeld, Frank Gruber and Lester Dent.) The hero of "A Saint in Silver" was cab driver Steve Midnight, who drove the mean streets of Southern California.

Then in 1998 John Gunnison of Adventure House brought us At the Stroke of Midnight, the complete collection of nine Steve Midnight stories. Butler also sold to other magazines, and I have examples of his work in Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly, Argosy, 10 Detective Aces, and Street & Smith's Detective Story. I also have a couple from Double Detective, including this one, from August 1938.

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