CALL FOR MICHAEL SHAYNE: The Murder Trail from Miami to Key West [Dell Mapback #428]

N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. 1st pbk printing, August 1950. Dell Mapback #428. Vintage Paperback. Reading crease, spine edges rubbed else a tight square copy , edges of text block have not lost most of its dye. Cover illustration by Robert Stanley. Rear map of Southern Florida with 3 insets Arthur Devlin wakes up so hungover that for a moment, he thinks the ship is sinking. As he gets his bearings, he realizes the only storm is inside his own head--and he isn’t on a ship at all. The last thing he remembers is being handed another drink at his going-away party. That was twelve days ago. Devlin has awoken in a sleazy hotel room, dressed in a stranger’s ratty clothes, with a bump on his forehead and a dead man at his feet. The phone rings: A woman who calls him Joey asks if he went through with the murder. Devlin has no choice but to say yes. To find out if he’s really a killer, Devlin hires Mike Shayne. Shayne has twenty-four hours to fill in the gaps of his client’s memory--and he will discover things that Devlin would rather stay forgotten. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Printing. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Stanley, Robert. Vintage Paperback.