“ I was searching old newspapers and saw the name Lanagan. It was similar to mine. I read the stories and was hooked on Hurlbut's early crime stories. ”  Paul Langan For more than 115 years, the short stories and novellas of Edward H. Hurlbut sat largely unread, buried in the yellowing pages of early 20th-century newspapers and out-of-print collections. That changes now. We are in the process of republishing Hurlbut's work — starting with The Jerroldson Case , Sad-Eyed Casey , and The Sinking of Submarine S-3 — and bringing his sharp, atmospheric crime fiction to a new generation of readers. If you love early detective fiction, Golden Age crime stories, or the rich literary history of San Francisco, Hurlbut is a name you need to know. Who Was Edward H. Hurlbut? Edward H. Hurlbut was a San Francisco journalist, editor, publisher, and fiction writer whose career spanned the early decades of the twentieth century. A graduate of Stanford University, he began his newspaper care...