Mike Shayne covers

Mike Shayne is a hard-boiled detective who appears in a variety of books, movies, radio plays, and stories by Brett Halliday and various ghost writers.

I'm really into the cover art for these books, and have been collecting them for a while. There used to be a great website about Mike Shayne at mikeshayne.com, but now it's only accessible through the internet archive.

I've got my own covers for many of the books, which are shown here. You can click through to flickr for high-res scans of the book covers. Books listed with title but no cover are books I don't have copies of.

NOVELS

Dividend on Death (1939)

The Private Practice of Michael Shayne (1940)

The Uncomplaining Corpses (1940)

Tickets for Death (1941)

Bodies are Where You Find Them (1941)

The Corpse Came Calling (1942)

Murder Wears a Mummer's Mask (1943; AKA In a Deadly Vein)

Blood on the Black Market (1943; Heads You Lose)

Michael Shayne's Long Chance (1944)

Murder and the Married Virgin (1944)

Murder is My Business (1945)

Marked for Murder (1945)

Blood on Biscayne Bay (1946)

Counterfeit Wife (1947)

Blood on the Stars (1948)

A Taste for Violence (1949)

Call for Michael Shayne (1949)

This is It, Michael Shayne (1950)

Framed in Blood (1951)

What Really Happened (1952)

When Dorinda Dances (1951)

One Night with Nora (1953)

She Woke to Darkness (1954)

Death Has Three Lives (1955)

Stranger in Town (1955)

The Blonde Cried Murder (1956)

Weep for a Blonde (1957)

Shoot the Works (1957)

Murder and the Wanton Bride (1958)

Fit to Kill (1958)

Date with a Dead Man (1959)

Target: Michael Shayne (1959)

Die Like a Dog (1959)

Murder Takes No Holiday (1960)

Dolls are Deadly (1960)

The Homicidal Virgin (1960)

Killers from the Keys (1961)

Murder in Haste (1961)

The Careless Corpse (1961)

Pay-Off in Blood (1962)

Murder by Proxy (1962)

Never Kill a Client (1962)

Too Friendly, Too Dead (1962)

The Corpse that Never Was (1963)

The Body Came Back (1963)

A Redhead for Michael Shayne (1964)

Shoot to Kill (1964)

Michael Shayne's 50th Case (1964)

The Violent World of Michael Shayne (1965)

Nice Fillies Finish Last (1965)

Murder Spins the Wheel (1966)

Armed...Dangerous... (1966)

Mermaid on the Rocks (1967)

Guilty as Hell (1967)

So Lush, So Deadly (1968)

Violence is Golden (1968)

Lady, Be Bad (1969)

Six Seconds to Kill (1970)

Fourth Down to Death (1970)

Count Backwards to Zero (1971)

I Come to Kill You (1971)

Caught Dead (1972)

Kill All the Young Girls (1973)

Blue Murder (1973)

Last Seen Hitchhiking (1974)

At the Point of a .38 (1974)

Million Dollar Handle (1976)

Win Some, Lose Some (1976)

Collections

Torrid Twelve (1961)

Other Halliday works

Mum's the Word for Murder (1938)