Out of the Past (RKO, 1947)m directed by Jacques Tourneur
signed by the stars
best of film noirs, screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring, adapting his own novel, Build My Gallows High, published as by Geoffrey Homes.
Out of the Past (RKO, 1947)
Tag: private eye
September 1959 Dell reissue
September 1959 Dell reissue, first printing, from the 1958 Random House hardcover
winner of the 1959 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America
cover painting by Robert McGinnis
1975 Random House first edition
1975 Random House first edition
Crumley’s first mystery, a modern classic.
first with Montana private eye Milton Chester Milodragovitch
Howard Brown publishing as John Evans
May 1946 Bobbs-Merrill hardcover
December 1946 Bantam paperback reissue
His first with Chicago private eye Paul Pine, a terrific Chandleresque series that is far too little known
February 1958 reissue, 3rd printing
1984 Quill reissue, 1st printing
cover art by Steve Macanga
March 1939 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
September 1945 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll
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
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1956 Bantam reissue ~ cover art by Mitchell Hooks
Sin in their Blood x 2
2nd book, also published as Death in Passing by Boardman in the UK in 1959
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SMB Noir 