Hand Me Down My Thirty-Eight: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock, Volume 3

Luther McGavock returns to the back roads and river towns of the Deep South with a .38 on his hip and a case file nobody else wants. A Memphis-based operative for the Atherton Browne Agency, McGavock is sent into small communities where old grudges run deep, outsiders aren't welcome, and the difference between law and vengeance can vanish overnight. Hand Me Down My Thirty-Eight: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock, Volume 3, continues Merle Constiner's acclaimed series of atmospheric detective novellas from the pages of Black Mask. These stories blend twisty investigations with richly observed Southern settings, dark humor, and characters as unpredictable as the roads McGavock drives. Long praised for his polished prose and intricate plotting, Constiner uses McGavock's assignments to explore a shadowed, off-the-map South rarely seen in classic hard¿boiled fiction.