Mike Shayne June 1957

Brett Halliday: The Challenge in Mystery Writing
Contents Page
Helen Nielsen “The Long Walk to Death”
Fletcher Flora “Only the Best for Bowser”
James Shucker “Carny Blood”
Tedd Thomey “Slay-ride to Eternity”
Ted Reynolds “Identification in Red”
D.E. Forbes “In a Neat Package”
Brett Halliday (Davis Dresser) “Weep for a Blond Corpse” part three
Murray Wolf “The Little Glass Tubes”
Keston Clarke “Poison at Eight”

Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Vol. 2 No. 2 June 1957
Publisher: Leo Margulies
Managing Editor: Cylvia Kleinman
Production: Joan Sherman
5.25” x 7.75” 144 pages 35¢

An excerpt from Steve Carper’s series “One-and-Dones” that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7–9: Paperback Prices by Graham Holroyd lists two books, D as in Dead, by mystery great Lawrence Treat, and The Lisping Man,…

Contents Page Frederick Highland “Peat” Vicki Weisfeld “The West Texas Rookie” Robert Lopresti “Robot Carson” Stephen Couch “Exposure” R.T. Lawton “The Job Interview” John M. Floyd “Rachel’s Place” Dennis Palumbo “A Really Great Team” Ray Morrison…

Excerpt from the tribute: “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018: Shown here are the Cauliflower Catnip pinback button, embroidered patch, and plaster bust. Joe stayed in touch…

“The scene is the Hall of the Great Guilty Lovers in Hell— roofed with stars that glitter like the first glances of fatal love, paved with sulfurous cosmic darkness assuage with desire, and walled with distant…

“There’s nothing I like better than a good story well told with a flavor of surprise and suspense. That’s the reason I pick up True Crime Detective.” –Lauritz Melchior, world-famous tenor True Crime Detective Vol. 2…

An excerpt from Michael Bracken’s interview in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018: The Digest Enthusiast: “Chase Your Dreams,” from AHMM (June 2016), is a great example of a story that evokes an emotional response.…

This issue expands to 192 pages (from 160) for 75¢ (from 60¢) and contracts to a bimonthly schedule. Contents Page Ejler Jakobsson: The Raries James Blish “The Day After Judgment” R.A. Lafferty “About a Secret Crocodile”…

Contents Page Joseph Chadwick “These the Condemned” art by Carl Burgos Gardner F. Fox “The Kid’s Big Kill” art by Carl Burgos Edward Carr “Dawn Hanging” art by Carl Burgos L.L. Foreman “Exile of the Valiant”…

Inside Front Cover art by William F. Nolan Contents Page (Charles E. Fritch) Across the Editor’s Desk Ron Goulart “Nesbit” Sylvia Dees and Ted White “Policy Conference” art by Luan Meatheringham Charles Beaumont “Auto Suggestion” Chester…