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Ah Sin was only a boy, 6,000 miles from China, and he wanted desperately to go back. The lawyer had promised him that once Black Margo was convicted and hung, his estate would pay the youth's back wages, a thousand dollars, so he could return to China. But the frontier justice system did not always work as expected.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” ( Booklist).

Beyond the Summit is a podcast of the Keene SDA Church. On the show, we go beyond the sermon and dive deep into God's word and how it's impacting people in our community.