Category: pulp

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”

1953 Dell reissue – cover art by Len Oehmen

1942 Dodd Mead hardcover

1953 Dell reissue

cover art by Len Oehmen

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3rd in the witty and sophisticated series with amateur sleuths Jeff and Haila Troy. “Kelley Roos” was a pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of Audrey Kelley Roos and William Roos