Mon 30 Jul 2007
MURDER AT 3 CENTS A DAY, by William F. Deeck: The DODGE titles.
Posted by Steve under Covers , Reference works / BiographiesNo Comments
The latest batch of covers uploaded to Bill Deeck’s Murder at 3 Cents a Day website are those for the Dodge Publishing Company, 1935-1938, some of which were designated as “Blue Streak Mysteries.”
Here’s Bill Pronzini’s introduction to the page containing the publisher’s line of detective fiction:
Besides the one shown, other authors and titles in the short-lived series include Theodore Roscoe with two books, one of which is I’ll Grind Their Bones; Joseph T. Shaw’s Blood on the Curb; George Bruce’s Claim of the Fleshless Corpse; and a small handful of others.
In case you were wondering, Geoffrey Coffin was the joint byline of Van Wyck Mason and Helen Brawner, whose series character Inspector Scott Stuart of the US Department of Justice made his first appearance (of two) in Murder in the Senate.