October 4, 2024 – SMB Noir

Out of the Past (RKO, 1947)

Out of the Past (RKO, 1947)m directed by Jacques Tourneur

signed by the stars

best of film noirs, screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring, adapting his own novel, Build My Gallows High, published as by Geoffrey Homes.

September 1959 Dell reissue, first printing, from the 1958 Random House hardcover

winner of the 1959 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America

cover painting by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted

Crumley’s first mystery, a modern classic.

first with Montana private eye Milton Chester Milodragovitch