Category: crime fiction

Warner Brothers, 1954

Dial M for Murder (Warner Bros., 1954). Very Fine. Lobby Card (11″ X 14″). Hitchcock.
Starring Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, and George Leigh. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

cover painting by D.G Summers

1952 Crown hardcover

October 1952 Signet paperback, first printing

first of the series, introducing Kansas City private eye Johnny April, written by a pair of detectives – John Roscoe and Michael Ruso – who worked together at Hargrove’s Detective Agency in KC

cover painting by D.G Summers 

January 1946 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

January 1946 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

better image than previously posted

~ Dale Clark, “I Ain’t Got No Body”, 23rd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 26th of 32 stories in BM

~ Merle Constiner, “Hand Me Down My Thirty-Eight”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 9th of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’ 10th of 12 stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “Date with Dynamite”, 9th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 14th of 23 stories in BM

~ C.G. Tahney, [pseud of Charles Green, not to be confused with Charles M. Green], “There’s Dough in Murder”, Nickie, aka ‘Sherlock in short pants’, last of 5 stories in BM

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