<p>Quite simply <em>Black Mask</em> magazine is the most important Detective fiction magazine ever published printing the most significant works of Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner among others over its 20-year life. This facsimile of the September 1929 issue represents <em>Black Mask</em> at its peak with the first installment of <em>The Maltese Falcon</em> by Dashiell Hammett along with stories by Erle Stanley Gardner Horace McCoy Frederick Nebel and Raoul Whitfield.</p><p></p>