Tough as Nails — Frederick Nebel

The complete collection of fifteen stories starring one of pulp fiction's most hardened PIs, with accompanying illustrations It's hot in St. Louis, and Donahue is looking for a hired gun. An exNew York cop who got canned from the NYPD after raiding the wrong gambling joint, Donahue has spent four years on the job as a private detectivepunishing work that's turned him from a tough customer into one of the most hard-boiled operatives in the country. A killer named Micky Shane has skipped New York for St. Louis, and Donahue has come to find him. When he does, it won't be good for Donahuebut it'll be a whole lot worse for Shane. In his days writing Donahue stories for Black Mask magazine, Frederick Nebel was as popular and well respected as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Although his name is no longer widely known, these classic tales of two-fisted justice have lost none of their grit or their bite.