New pulp reprints from Altus Press.

I have ... a face like a gargoyle and the disposition of a tired tarantula. —Norbert Davis, May 1941 Argosy

A scene from Max Brand's
Champion of Lost Causes (1925)

Among the new releases of Altus Press, a specialist in pulp reprints:

• Doan and Carstairs: Their Complete Cases by Norbert Davis. Boozy PI Doan teams up with his lofty Great Dane, Carstairs.

• Champion of Lost Causes by Max Brand (introd. William F. Nolan). Samuel Loring takes up the cause of a woman accused of murder.

• Sabotage by Cleve F. Adams. Detective Rex McBride races to prevent the destruction of an important dam by an implacable enemy.

Happy birthday, William F. Nolan.

William F. Nolan was born today in Kansas City, MO, in 1928. He wrote Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook (1969) and Hammett: A Life at the Edge (1983), as well as paid tribute to Hammett, Chandler,

Michael York in
Logan's Run (1976)

and Gardner with his Black Mask Boys series. His work also crosses genre boundaries, including mystery, horror, western, fantasy, and sci-fi; he was an Edgar nominee for Space for Hire (1971), and he cowrote the sci-fi classic Logan's Run (1967) with George Clayton Johnson.