I'll Tell the World E-Book

Carroll John Daly

• Herausgeber: Black Mask
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Race Williams was as free from money as an old maid from a pleasant thought. And the sweltering heat of the city only added to his anger, like a raging bull on a chain. So when he discovers and decodes a secret and ambiguous message in the newspaper, he follows the lead and the smell of cash. But Race Williams gets more than he bargained for, much more. A young, slip of a girl is kidnapped in the dead of night, with only Race Williams on her trail. He must trail them through the dark and dismal city before she, and the prospect of money, is gone forever. Story #9 in the Race Williams series. Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op story by several months. Daly's classic character, Race Williams, was one of the most popular fiction characters of the pulps, and the direct inspiration for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Leseprobe

I’ll Tell the World

Race Williams book #9

A Black Mask Classic

by

Carroll John Daly

Black Mask

Copyright Information

© 2017 Steeger Properties, LLC. Published by arrangement with Steeger Properties, LLC, agent for the Estate of Carroll John Daly.

Publication History:

“I’ll Tell the World” originally appeared in the August 1925 issue of Black Mask magazine.

No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the publisher.

“Race Williams” is a trademark of the Estate of Carroll John Daly. “Black Mask” is a trademark of Steeger Properties, LLC, and registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

I’ll Tell the World

Chapter 1

Tom: As promised, 69th C.P.W. Two’s day. Eleven years old. Frantic.

Dorothy.

I laid the paper down on my knee and killed another butt. Hot? Man! it was the time for the preachers to cash in by waxing eloquent on the fires of hell. Anybody would believe them. Mid-day, and it would roast the tail off a brass monkey. What wire are you on? Why, Race Williams is talking; private investigator, confidential agent, and—at present—busted gentleman of leisure. Funny that! And you wonder what I did with the heavy roll I froze onto in my last case, up Middlend way?

No, I didn’t exactly endow any charitable institution, though I half wish I had. I shot the money over the gaming tables of Monte Carlo. Silly? Sure! But after all, it was my money, and what kick have you got? Good! let’s go.