cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
John Lawrence, “Murder in the Family” (Marquis of Broadway)
Norbert Davis, “Give the Devil His Due” (Max Latin)
C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Footprints on the Ceiling” (Colonel Kaspir)
D.L. Champion, “Tell It to Homicide” (Inspector Allhoff)
Alan Anderson, “Prowl the Night”
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Vintage keybook photograph from the 1944 film, showing actress Marjorie Reynolds frozen in the shadow of a giant swastika.
Based on Graham Greene’s 1943 novel. While en route to London after being released from a mental institution, a man is accidentally caught up in a nefarious Nazi scheme, and finds himself pursued by German secret agents.
Set in England.
8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned at the edges, with two punch holes along the left edge.
stories mentioned on the cover are from the April 1942 US edition
no corresponding US cover art
cover art by Rafael de Soto
better image than previously posted
~ 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
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