Duane Spurlock wrote:
> I have a question about our old red-headed P.I. pal
from Miami, Mike
> Shayne.
>
> Were the novelets from Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine
ever published in
> book form, or were their magazine appearances their
only publication?
Two of the Shayne stories from MSMM were reprinted in
paperback
anthologies:
"Death Dives Deep", from MSMM Jan. '59 (written by Robert
Arthur) was
reprinted in _Mike Shayne's Torrid Twelve_, edited by Leo
Margulies, Dell
First Edition K109, 1961
"Death of a Dead Man", from MSMM June '63 (written by Dennis
Lynds) was
reprinted in _Mink is for a Minx_, also edited by Leo
Margulies, Dell 5642,
1964
These are pretty good anthologies of stories from MSMM,
including ones by
Hal Ellson, Talmage Powell, Frank Kane, Robert Bloch, Richard
Deming, Henry
Slesar, and Jonathan Craig, among others.
A couple of Davis Dresser's full-length Shayne novels were
serialized in
the magazine: _Weep for a Blonde_ (Feb., Apr., June '57) and
_The Body Came
Back_ (Dec. '63, Jan. and Feb. '64). Also _Target: Mike
Shayne_ (MSMM,
Apr. '59) and _The Homicidal Virgin_ (MSMM, Oct. '60), both
by Dresser,
were later expanded into novels of the same names. Lynds'
story "The
Friendly Corpse" (MSMM Sept. '62) was expanded into the novel
_Too
Friendly, Too Dead_.
> Related to that, were the Mike Shayne paperbacks
always original novels,
or
> did they sometimes feature cases reprinted from the
magazine?
Except for the two stories listed above, none of the magazine
Shaynes have
ever been reprinted to my knowledge.
James Reasoner
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