Category: pulp

1948 Pocket reissue ~ cover art by Roswell Keller

pseudonym of Hugh Callingham Wheeler, who also wrote as Q.Patrick and Jonathan Stagge, and collaborated with Richard Wilson Webb under all three names.

4th in his series with Peter Duluth series, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1945 as Puzzle for Wantons. This is the 1948 Pocket edition, re-titled.

cover art by Roswell Keller

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Call for Michael Shayne x 3

pen name – one of many – of David Dresser

1949 Dodd hardcover, this the later 1950 Dell mapback reissue

cover art by Robert Stanley

featuring Miami private eye Michael Shayne

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cover art by Robert McGinnis

January 1959 Dell reissue, first printing

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January 1964 Dell reissue, first printing – McGinnis artwork again

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