Following up on a book recommendation by Clanobucklin, I'm just finishing up a Hugh B. Cave collection entitled Long Live the Dead.
This guy can write some pulp fiction!! One of the inventors of the genre actually.
Since reading two of his short detective stories published in the 1930's in "The Black Mask" magazine just a few weeks ago, I've acquired no less than five of his books containing hundreds of titles,....everything from old hard-boiled detective stories to horror pulp.
Highly recommended if you like seedy charactars, fedoras and .45 autos, fast cars and women in tales from the '30's and '40s. 8)