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6 x Give ‘Em the Ax


1944 Morrow hardcover

9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

1950 Dell mapback

August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz

1958 Dell reissue

1962 Dell reissue

cover art by Harry Bennett

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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”

Private Practice of Michael Shayne x 4

4th book released in this long-running series. first published as a hardcover by Holt in 1940

1943 Dell reissue

cover art by William Strohmer

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1950 Dell mapback reissue

cover art by Robert Stanley

cover art by Robert McGinnis

1958 Dell reissue

1965 reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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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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