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