![]() ![]() Miami-based Michael Shayne is at once a hardboiled private eye and a methodical, Nero Wolfe-esque classical detective. When I got home I started investigating and discovered that his books will be well worth reading, or at least sampling them to see what I think. I had no idea if I would want to read these books or just have them for my collection of vintage book covers. The books were not in great condition but the cover illustrations are still lovely and the text is readable which is a big plus. He does have a distinctive style but there were other cover artists with similar styles. Luckily this was identified on the back cover of the books, because even though I have two books about McGinnis's book covers and art in general, I cannot identify them without help. ![]() ![]() I could not have passed up these books because most of them had covers by Robert McGinnis. Today I concentrate on the Mike Shayne series by Brett Halliday. There were lots of Mike Shayne mysteries and a good number of Perry Mason or Bertha Lam / Donald Cool mysteries. There may be occasional boxes of paperbacks with one or two vintage paperbacks in them on the tables. ![]() That has never happened in all the decades I have been attending the sale. When I was at the book sale this year I ran into a box full of vintage paperbacks. ![]()
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