The Dead Lie Still.

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Creator

William L. Stuart

Title

The Dead Lie Still.

Coverage

New York and Toronto:

Publisher

A Murray Hill Mystery by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.

Date

1945

Description

Stuart’s first novel (and the first book published in Farrar & Rinehart’s Murray Hill Mystery series) features Sam Talbot, an ex-Navy intelligence officer working as a commercial artist. The novel is hard-boiled and violent, and it presages the paranoia of the coming Cold War era.

Source

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson