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<p>Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask Magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective P.I. story and perfected the genre with his classic character, Race Williams. Apart from the novel-length Race Williams stories, these classic hard-boiled thrillers have rarely been reprinted, if ever.</p><p>Volume 3 contains the next batch of Race Williams stories, all from 1929-31 as Daly continued publishing serialized novels in Black Mask. Included here are "The Silver Eagle," "Tainted Power," and "The Third Murderer."</p><p>This collection also includes several Race Williams novelettes including "Shooting Out of Turn," "Murder By Mail," and "Death for Two." And it's prefaced by an all-new, scholarly introduction by Professor Brooks E. Hefner of James Madison University.</p><p>Shooting Out of Turn: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Volume 3 continues this most important series published in years on the history of the Hard-Boiled Detective story.</p>