cover image Jo Gar's Caseboook

Jo Gar's Caseboook

Raoul Whitfield. Crippen & Landru Publishers, $20 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-885941-77-0

In association with Black Mask Press, Crippen & Landru presents the first title in a new series, Tales from the Black Mask Morgue. Jo Gar's Casebook, by Raoul Whitfield and edited by Keith Alan Deutsch, collects 18 uncollected stories by this undeservedly forgotten hardboiled author. E.R. Hagemann explains in his two introductory essays why Whitfield (1897-1945) ranks near the top of the class in the Hammett-Chandler school.