Category: Hardboiled

1943 Paramount Pictures

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Vintage keybook photograph from the 1944 film, showing actress Marjorie Reynolds frozen in the shadow of a giant swastika.

Based on Graham Greene’s 1943 novel. While en route to London after being released from a mental institution, a man is accidentally caught up in a nefarious Nazi scheme, and finds himself pursued by German secret agents.

Set in England.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned at the edges, with two punch holes along the left edge.

The Dark Tunnel x 6

1944 Dodd Mead hardcover, first edition

author’s first novel, Lew Archer was a few years away

1950 Lion reissue – cover art by E. Walter

1955 Lion reissue with different title

cover art by Clark Hulings

1972 Bantam reissue

1983 Bantam reissue – cover art by James Marsh

2013 Mysterious Press/Open Road reissue

January 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

January 1932, issue #3

cover art by William Reusswig

better image than previously posted

Madeleine Sharps Buchanan, “The White Diver of Death”

Frederick Nebel, “Six Diamonds and a Dick” (Cardigan)

Oscar Schisgall, “Once a Crook” (Dave Loree)

Robert H. Rohde, “The Chamber of Doom”

Carroll John Daly, “The Crime Machine” (Vee Brown)

Norman H. White, Jr., “Hot Ice” (Jack Williams)

profile of Buchanan appeared on pgs 123-24

April 1946 issue ~ cover art by Samuel Cherry

April 1946 issue

cover art by Samuel Cherry

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “No Place Like Homicide” (Mariano Mercado)

Julius Long, “The Needle and the Hood” (C.D. Mort)

John Knox, “Home is Where the Hearse Is”

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Double” (Doc Pierce)

Roland Phillips, “Murder Rides a Broomstick”

A. Boyd Correll, “Lethal Legacy”