Carroll John Daly

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1978
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Dime Detective Book

1 - Adventures of Satan Hall (Mar-1988)
2 - The Adventures of Race Williams (Jan-1989)

A Race Williams Mystery

The Snarl of the Beast (Feb-1982)
The Hidden Hand (May-1992)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Murder from the East

  • The Snarl of the Beast

    A Race Williams Mystery

    Before Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, Before Dashiell Hammett’s The Red Harvest, there was Carroll John Daly’s The Snarl of the Beast, the first true hard-boiled detective novel. Featuring Race Williams, a private detective afraid of no ma...

  • Adventures of Satan Hall

    A Dime Detective Book - 1

  • The Adventures of Race Williams

    A Dime Detective Book - 2

  • The Hidden Hand

    A Race Williams Mystery

    Stated first HarperPerennial edition. Trade paperback is in near fine condition. Black remainder mark at the edges of the bottom page block. Some dust spots to the edges of the page blocks. Mild toning to the page margins. A Race Williams Mystery....

  • Better Corpses

    Better Corpses, by Carroll John Daly, the man who founded the hard-boiled detective genre.Erle Stanley Gardner calls Daly’s hero, Race Williams, “incomparably hard-boiled, bone-crushing, and fast shooting,” and The New York Times describes Daly...

  • Detective Tales Number Two

  • Lurking Shadows

  • Carroll John Daly Sampler

    Carroll John Daly (1889 - January 16, 1958) was a writer of crime fiction. He has been credited with creating the first hard-boiled detective story in 1923 with "Knights of the Open Palm," published June 1, 1923 in Black Mask magazine, featuring priv...



  • The Complete Cases of the Reckoner

    Millionaire Marty Day has lost it all. Destitute and desperate, his path crosses the mysterious RECKONER.... Created by Hard-Boiled legend Carroll John Daly, Day battled the Reckoner through four stories published between 1933 and 34 in the pages of ...

  • Black Mask

    The greatest detective magazine of all time is back for another collection of the best in hard-boiled fiction. Featuring classic material from the vaults of Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and other high-quality pulp magazines. ...

  • Alias Buttercup

  • Blind Alleys

  • Conceited, Maybe

  • Devil Cat

  • The Face Behind the Mask

  • The False Clara Burkhart

  • Half-Breed

  • I'll Tell the World



  • Knights of the Open Palm

  • The Red Peril

  • Say It With Lead!

  • South Sea Steel

  • The Super-Devil

  • The Tag Murders

  • Them That Lives By Their Guns

  • Three Thousand to the Good

  • Under Cover

  • Shooting Out of Turn

    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 Ra...



  • Satan's Vengeance

    The influence of an Underworld lord known as The Other Man has crept into the Police Commissioner's office. This criminal mastermind is forcing the market owners of New York to pay protection to him, and is getting control of all rackets. In desperat...

  • The Man in the Shadows

    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 Black Mask authors to follow. Written by Carroll John Daly, Ter...

  • Unremembered Murder

    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 R...

  • Lady of Death

    Meet Mr. Strang: In his skull is embedded a bullet. Through the underworld glide his lieutenants-men and girls willing to be tortured to death to aid him. He cares nothing for power, nothing for safety. He works for one thing-to crush the evils of pa...

  • Satan's Lash

    Detective Frank Hall wasn't so much a cop: more of a killer on the police force. His brutal style and devil-like visage looks gave him the nickname Satan Hall as he worked to corruption, gangsters, and killers... one of the most unique series charact...

  • The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 3

    Step into the complex world of Vivian Vee Brown, a unique figure leading dual lives in the gritty realm of crime and the glamorous domain of music. Despite his delicate appearance, Brown serves as a special operative for the Manhattan District Attorn...

  • Two-Gun Gerta

    Saddle up for an exhilarating journey through the rugged terrain of the Wild West with Two-Gun Gerta, a Western masterpiece by the trailblazing hardboiled fiction author Carroll John Daly, in collaboration with C.C. Waddell. Celebrating the 100th an...

  • The Egyptian Lure

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    John Carroll Daly was a popular pulp author of the early 20th century. His 'Knights of the Open Palm', published in 1923 in Black Mask magazine, is seen as founding the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction. First published in March of 1928, 'The Eg...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carroll John Daly has published 37 books.

Carroll John Daly does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Two-Gun Gerta, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Carroll John Daly, Murder from the East, was published in September 1978.

Yes. Carroll John Daly has 2 series.
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