Black Mask (magazine)
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Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan. It is most well-known today for launching the hardboiled crime sub
September 1929 cover of Black Mask, featuring part 1 of serialization of The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
September 1920
June 1923, featuring Carroll John Daly's anti-Ku Klux Klan story "Knights of the Open Palm"
October 1923
The Glass Key
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The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. First published as a serial in Black Mask magazine in 1930, it then was collected in 1931. It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer,
Cover of the first edition
March 1930 issue of Black Mask magazine, featuring Hammett's The Glass Key