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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cover art by James Lunnon
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~ W.T. Ballard, “Mobster Guns”, 20th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 30th of 43 stories in BM
~ Hugh B. Cave, “Curtain Call”, 4th of 9 stories in BM
~ Eric Howard, “Fifty Grand Frail”, ‘Tim Ryan, private snoop, 1st person narrator’, 5th of 6 stories in BM
~ Edgar Pangborn, “Bullet Song”, ‘Tom Paradine, music critic’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Station K-I-L-L”, ‘23rd (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’, 24th of 26 stories in BM
~ Donald Wandrei, “Tick, Tock”, ‘time bomb’, 5th of 6 stories in BM
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cover art by William Reusswig
Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Hand of Horror” (Reed Sampsell)
Frederick Nebel, “Chains of Darkness” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Dead Men Walk” (Det. Lt. Bartholomew Brandt)
Richard J. Credicott, “The Ghoul of Murder Manor”
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