Category: original art

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael de Soto

November 1944 issue

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~ Merle Constiner, “Killer Stay ‘Way from My Door”, ‘Luther McGavock, private detective; he works Atherton Browne who heads a Memphis-based agency, 7th of 11 of the McG stories; usually rural setting’, 7th of 12 stories in BM

~ Brett Halliday (pseud. of David Dresser), “A Taste for Cognac”, 1st of 2 Mike Shayne stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “Blind Bogey”, 2nd of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 7th of 23 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “Murder A.W.O.L.”, 8th Cellini Smith, ‘on his induction day, WWII’, 10th of 12 appearances in BM

©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

Divided on Death x 5

1939 Holt hardcover

Oil on board, 13 x 8-1/2 inches (33.0 x 21.6 cm) (sight) – Not signed

The present work is published on the cover of Dividend on Death by Brett Halliday (Dell, 1952).

first published novel under the name Brett Halliday, first Michael (or Mike) Shayne novel

cover art by Robert McGinnis

1959 Dell reissue

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