Introduction: “It Was a Diamond, All Right” by Joe Gores
Part One: A Rough Start by Vince Emery
Part Two: 1922, First Fiction
· “The Barber and His Wife”
· “The Parthian Shot”
· “The Great Lovers”
· “Immortality”
· “The Road Home”
Part Three: 1923, The 16-Story Year
· “The Master Mind”
· “The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody”
· “The Joke on Eloise Morey”
· “Holiday”
· “The Crusader”
· “The Dimple”
· “The Green Elephant”
· ”Laughing Masks”
Part Four: 1924, Fiction Factory Slowdown
· “Itchy”
· “Esther Entertains”
Part Five: 1925, Established Writer Quits?
· “Another Perfect Crime”
· “Ber-Bulu”
Part Six: 1926-1930, Ad Man and Novelist
· “The Advertising Man Writes a Love Letter”
Part Seven: 1930-1941, Rich and Famous
· “Night Shade”
· “This Little Pig”
· “The Thin Man and the Flack”
Part Eight: The Long Sunset by Vince Emery
8 illustrations, 29 photographs; 352 pages. Edited by Vince Emery
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