Order of Michael Shayne Books
The author was born in Chicago and grew up in Texas. At the age of 14, he ran away from home and joined the U.S. 5th Cavalry Regiment. He then worked in Border Patrol before returning to school. He wrote the first Michael Shayne and saw it get rejected by over twenty publishers before being accepted. The series went on to be one of the biggest successes of his career. The character would go on to appear in twelve films, a radio series, and an NBC television series.
Publication Order of Michael Shayne Books
Dividend on Death | (1939) | |
The Private Practice of Michael Shayne | (1940) | |
The Uncomplaining Corpses | (1940) | |
Tickets for Death | (1941) | |
Bodies Are Where You Find Them | (1941) | |
The Case of the Walking / Corpse Came Calling | (1943) | |
Murder Wears a Mummer’s Mask / In a Deadly Vein | (1943) | |
Blood on the Black Market | (1943) | |
Michael Shayne’s Long Chance | (1944) | |
Murder and the Married Virgin | (1944) | |
Murder is My Business | (1945) | |
Marked For Murder | (1945) | |
Blood on Biscayne Bay | (1946) | |
Counterfeit Wife | (1947) | |
Blood on the Stars / Murder Is a Habit | (1948) | |
A Taste for Violence | (1949) | |
Call for Michael Shayne | (1949) | |
This is it, Michael Shayne | (1950) | |
Framed in Blood | (1951) | |
When Dorinda Dances | (1951) | |
A Taste for Cognac | (1951) | |
What Really Happened | (1952) | |
One Night with Nora / The Lady Came By Night | (1953) | |
She Woke to Darkness | (1954) | |
Death Has Three Lives | (1955) | |
Stranger in Town | (1955) | |
The Blonde Cried Murder | (1956) | |
Heads You Lose | (1956) | |
Weep for a Blonde | (1957) | |
Shoot the works | (1957) | |
Murder and the Wanton Bride | (1958) | |
Fit to Kill | (1958) | |
Date with a Dead Man | (1959) | |
Target | (1959) | |
Die Like A Dog | (1959) | |
Murder Takes No Holiday | (1960) | |
Dolls Are Deadly | (1960) | |
The Homicidal Virgin | (1960) | |
Killers from the Keys | (1961) | |
Murder in Haste | (1961) | |
The Careless Corpse | (1961) | |
Pay-Off in Blood | (1962) | |
Murder by Proxy | (1962) | |
Never Kill a Client | (1962) | |
Too Friendly, Too Dead | (1962) | |
The Corpse That Never Was | (1963) | |
The Body Came Back | (1963) | |
A Redhead | (1964) | |
Shoot to Kill | (1964) | |
The Violent World of Michael Shayne | (1965) | |
Nice Fillies Finish Last | (1965) | |
Murder Spins the Wheel | (1966) | |
Armed… Dangerous… | (1966) | |
Mermaid on the Rocks | (1967) | |
Guilty as Hell | (1967) | |
So Lush, So Deadly | (1968) | |
Lady, be Bad | (1969) | |
Six Seconds to Kill | (1970) | |
Fourth Down to Death | (1970) | |
Count Backwards to Zero | (1971) | |
I Come To Kill You | (1971) | |
Caught Dead | (1972) | |
Kill All the Young Girls | (1973) | |
Blue Murder | (1973) | |
Last Seen Hitchhiking | (1974) | |
At The Point of A .38 | (1974) | |
Million Dollar Handle | (1976) | |
Win Some, Lose Some | (1976) |