Death Goes To The Post — Brett Halliday

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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