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repurposed cover from January 1942 Hollywood Detective
[updated with original art 8/8/25]
January 1945 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
Category: updated
May 1941 issue
February 1948 issue ~ cover art by Samuel Cherry
February 1936 issue ~ cover art by John Drew
cover art by John Drew
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~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Rat Bait”, 4th of 7 Chuck Thompson stories, 9th of 21 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Portrait of Murder”, 15th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 15th of 31 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Shylock Is Murdered”, 24th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 31st of 39 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “No Hard Feelings”, 34th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, they reverse roles in this story, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.4 (Altus, 2013), 63 of 67 stories in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Body Snatcher”, ‘15th (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, 16th of 26 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop
[cover updated 10/27/25]
July 1953 issue ~ cover art by Hiram Spieler
Divided on Death x 5
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
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SMB Noir 