
cover art by Norman Saunders
first of only five issue
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cover art by George J. Rozen
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David Dresser was the real name of “Brett Halliday”

cover art by Gloria Stoll
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~ Dale Clark, “Heir in the Air”, 22nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 25th of 32 stories in BM
~ Brett Halliday (pseud. of David Dresser), “Dead Man’s Diary”, 2nd of 2 Mike Shayne stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “Over My Dead Body”, 7th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 12th of 23 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “Alcoholics Calamitous”, last of 10 Cellini Smith appearances, last of 12 appearances in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop


1940 Simon and Schuster hardcover as The Bride Wore Black, first novel and the beginning of his “Black” title run
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August 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine


cover art by Rafael de Soto

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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

April 1961 issue
cover art by James Meese


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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1944 Detective Novel Classic digest

cover art by Robert Stanley
Oil on board, 12.625 x 8.75 in. (sight), not signed
Dell #386, 1950.

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cover art by Paul Rader
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
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[post updated 10/12/25]