Day: August 26, 2025

1942 Avon reissue – cover art by Gil Tompkins

published in 1936 in hardcover by Morrow

1942 Avon Books, #18

cover art by Gil Tompkins

2nd book published with this pen name and second book with newspaperman Robin Bishop

pseudonym of Daniel Mainwaring who, as Homes, wrote Build My Gallows High (1946), adapted into the classic film noir Out of the Past (1947). 2nd book published with this pen name and second book with newspaperman Robin Bishop

May 1930 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

May 1930 issue

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Crime Crusher”, 32th Ed Jenkins & his wife Helen Chadwick, 1st of a 3-part story, 49th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “Dagger Point”, Ned Beaumont, 3rd of 4 stories that will go together to make up The Glass Key (published 1931), 43rd of 45 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Slowdown Hands”, 14th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 18th of 39 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Street Wolf”, ’Napoleon Damiani, gangster’, 23 of 67 stories in BM

~ Reuben Jennings Shay, “Backfire”, 1st of 2 in BM

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1946 MGM Pictures

N.p. N.p., Circa 1946, vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir, Undercurrent

Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, Robert Taylor (starring)
Vincent Minnelli (director)
Thelma Strabel (novel)
Edward Chodorov (screenwriter)

Based on the story, “You Were There” by Thelma Strabel, serialized in “Woman’s Home Companion” between 1944 and 1945. Vincent Minnelli’s second dramatic film, following “The Clock” (1945).

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.