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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1963 Gold Medal paperback original
cover painting by Robert McGinnis
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cover art by Robert McGinnis
first published in Australia by Horowitz, 1962, then in the US by Signet, a paperback original
cover art repurposed for 1967 Signet by James Dark
pseudonym of E. Howard Hunt, CIA spook, Nixon bag-man, Watergate op and spy novelist
1957 Dell paperback original with DC accountant Steve Bentley – this the first in that series.
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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pseudonym of Robert (Lee) Martin
1959 Dodd Mead hardcover, this the later 1960 Crest reissue
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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cover painting by Robert McGinnis
Carter Brown was a pseudonym for Alan Geoffrey Yates 1969 Horowitz paperback reprinted that same year by Signet
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1964 Horwitz International reissue
cover art by Robert McGinnis
Gouache on board, 22 x 15 inches (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower center right: R. M.Ginnis
1971 Signet reissue, third printing
cover art by Robert McGinnis
[updated 11/5/25, 3/29/26]
1949 Dodd hardcover, this the later, 1964, Dell softcover
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted
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