Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 3, February 1961

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When we first met Mike Shayne we were younger than we are now by quite a few years — we refuse to tell you how many — and we didn’t know exactly how far he would go, and whether his clients would keep his Miami office humming with the kind of activity a private-eye thrives on. All writers — or most of them, anyway — feel that way when they meet the big, take-over character in all of their books for the first time and are a little awed when he starts talking. But we went right ahead and placed our bets on Mike and... well, quite frankly, we seem to have picked a winner.

Not only has the redhead’s Miami office drawn clients from all walks of life in just the way we’d hoped for... his popularity has spread to twenty-five million readers in all book editions. And now, in an hour-long show on NBC Television, starring Richard Denning as the one perfect Mike Shayne, the redhead has soared to a new peak of nation-wide popularity.

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