Somewhere in Mexico: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Frost, Volume 1

by Horace McCoy, Jes Schlaikjer (Illustrator), John Wooley (Introduction)

Remembered for his novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, author Horace McCoy began his writing career as a mainstay during the golden age of Black Mask Magazine, selling nearly 20 stories to editor Joseph T. Shaw. A former aviator, McCoy penned 14 gritty stories of Jerry Frost for Black a flying Texas Ranger, one of "Hell's Stepsons" who patrolled the border. It was McCoy's greatest work for the pulps prior to departing for a lengthy career as a scriptwriter. This edition collects the first half of the Frost series, most of which have never before been reprinted. Also including an all-new introduction by John Wooley.

340 pages, Paperback

Published July 13, 2022

About the author

Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennessee and Texas; after serving in the air force during World War I, he worked as a journalist, film actor, and screenplay writer, and is author of five novels including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935) and the noir classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948). Though underappreciated in his own time, McCoy is now recognized as a peer of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. He died in Beverly Hills, California, in 1955.