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    Carroll John Daly 
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    Race Williams, the original hard boiled
      private investigator, in New York City: | 
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    The Snarl of the Beast (1926) 
      The Hidden Hand (1929) 
      The Tag Murders (1930) 
      Tainted Power (1931) 
      The Third Murderer (1931)  | 
    The Amateur Murderer (1933) 
      Murder from the East (1935) 
      Better Corpses (1940) 
      The Adventures of Race Williams (1987) [SS]  | 
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    Vee Brown, a private investigator who writes
      songs as Vivian Brown (his real name), in New York City: | 
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    Murder Won’t Wait (1933)  | 
    Emperor of Evil (1937)  | 
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    Satan Hall, a police detective in New York
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    Death’s Juggler (1935) 
      APA: The Mystery of the Smoking Gun (1936)  | 
    Ready to Burn (1951) 
      The Adventures of Satan Hall (1988) [SS]  | 
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    Two-Gun Gerta (1926) [written
        with C.C. Waddell] 
      The White Circle (1926) 
      The Man in the Shadows (1928)  | 
    Mr. Strang (1936) 
      The Legion of the Living Dead (1947) 
      Murder at Our House (1950)  | 
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