Category: Hardboiled

1957 Doubleday hardcover

Brackett, Leigh. AN EYE FOR AN EYE. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. This book became the basis for the television series “Markham“. Some tanning to page edges, a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing.

1961 Belmont paperback original

novelization from the TV series starring Ray Milland

novelization by Lawrence Block was released after the TV show had been cancelled

October 1932 issue

October 1932 issue

cover art by Penrhyn Stanlaws

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Dashiell Hammett, “Too Many Have Lived”, a Sam Spade short story – first appearance – illustrated by J. M. Clement

reprinted in 1945 in the Dell mapback A Man Called Spade

1945 Dell mapback

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“A Man Called Spade”

“They Can Only Hang You Once”

“Too Many Have Lived”

“The Assistant Murderer”

“His Brother’s Keeper”