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I sought out this series back in the '80s, when I was amassing books by Black Mask writers, but when I finally got around to readin...

Based on the number of published novels, W.T. Ballard has to be ranked as one of the most productive of "Cap" Shaw's Black...

Steve Mertz posted this pic of his bookshelves on Facebook the other day (taken, I suspect by Paul Bishop, who paid him a recent visi...

I’m curious to know many Black Mask characters graduated into original novels after (or during) their time with the magazine. I can name...

Yesterday, right HERE , I announced the release of the Black Mask eBook "Gamblers Don't Win," featuring Hollywood Troublesho...

W.T. Ballard was one of Joe Shaw’s second wave of Black Mask boys, along with George Harmon Coxe, Paul Cain, Norbert Davis, Roger Torrey,...

If your name is Randy Johnson, you probably have this book and know all this stuff. But for the rest of us - including me - it’s packed ...

Whew! What a strange publishing history this one's had. Bill Lennox, the hero of this book, was one of Cap Shaw's regulars in Bl...