Death Goes To The Post

Street & Smith's Detective Story, January 1943
DEATH GOES TO THE POST
by Davis Dresser
as Brett Halliday

Michael Shayne lays down a bet at Hialeah—and so manages to make a losing ticket pay off on a corpse.

One of the most successful of all fictional detectives is the rough, tough Michael Shayne. While other private eyes rise and fall, Shayne just keeps on solving gory charivaris—and cutting himself relentlessly in at the payoff, still somehow seeing that the guilty are punished and justice is done.

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