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publicity photo from The Killers, Don Siegel’s 1964 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story. also starred Angie Dickinson, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, and Ronald Reagan as the head bad guy. Marvin and Gulager play hit men who, having killed Cassavetes, try to figure out why a guy would just sit there and wait to be shot. Reagan’s last film role before heading into politics.

cover art by Charles Copeland
Criss-Cross, 1934 Vanguard hardcover, basis for the 1949 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner

Draw the Curtain first published in 1947 by Jefferson House. 1958 Signet reprint with the different title.This is his first book with a Chicago private eye whose identity is a closely guarded secret. He’s known only as “Mac”

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