Day Keene wrote these eight hardboiled tales for the pulps, particularly Detective Stories, in the 40s. John Pelan has selected these for Volume #1 of the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series. The titles are: League of the Grateful Dead As Deep As the Grave Fry Away, Kentucky Babe Crawl Out of That Coffin Marry the Sixth for Murder Nothing to Worry About Dance with The Death House Doll Dead As in Mackerel The introduction by John Pelan tells more about Ramble House's plan to reprint ALL of Day Keene's pulp stories.
Day Keene was immensely popular in the pulps and as a writer of gripping, gritty novels. John Pelan's introductions to this series (which may grow to 11 volumes) tells you all about the author.