A McGinnis Match-up

Two different Dell paperback editions from Brett Halliday’s best-selling Michael Shayne private-eye series, both employing the same cover art painted by Robert McGinnis: The Homicidal Virgin (1967) and Marked for Murder (1969).

The Case of the Cautious Coquette (1949)

The Case of the Cautious Coquette, by Erle Stanley Gardner. Published in hardback in 1949 by William Morrow and Company. Cover art by Charles Lofgren.

McGinnis’ Curtains

Below: Revenge, by Jack Ehrlich (Dell, 1958); Kiss and Kill, by Ellery Queen (Dell, 1969), ghostwritten by Charles Runyon. Both covers were painted painted by Robert McGinnis.

The Convenient Coward (1961)

The Convenient Coward, by Kenneth E. Shiflet (Stackpole Books, 1961).

Dashiell Hammett Signature Card

Donated to the University of California, Berkeley’s Bancroft Library by Northern California crime novelist Mark Coggins.

Chandler’s Typewriter

This Olivetti Studio 44 typewriter, used by Raymond Chandler to write his final novel, 1958’s Playback, was part of the Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Chandler memorabilia auctioned off by Doyle New York in December 2024.

Chandler’s Own Falcon

This 1931 edition of Dashiell Hammett’s most famous detective novel, The Maltese Falcon, was part of the Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Chandler memorabilia auctioned off by Doyle New York in December 2024.

A Poodle in Palm Springs

This humorous poem about a lost poodle in Palm Springs, California, was written by crime novelist Raymond Chandler in 1957. It was part of the Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Chandler memorabilia auctioned off by Doyle New York in December 2024. The official description of that item is found here beneath the poem itself.

Gentian Hill (circa 1970), Back Cover

Gentian Hill (1949)

Gentian Hill, by Elizabeth Goudge, published in hardcover by Coward-McCann, 1949.