The Black Mask Boys Mystery Thriller (trilogy)

FE/FP, with publisher's full number lines of all three books in the Black Mask trilogy. The Black Mask Murders (214 pp., 1994), The Marble Orchard (230 pp., 1996), and Sharks Never Sleep (242 pp., 1998) This series featuring the three seminal authors of the American private eye novel - Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner - each, in turn, as himself, the detective-hero. In the first of this delightfully offbeat mystery series, "Dash" Hammett is the narrator, with the other two in subsidiary roles; their turns will come in subsequent books.