Prolific pulp fiction author Donald Barr Chidsey’s long-running series about hard-boiled Miami cop Sgt. Wentworth L. McGarvey and his sidekick, Detective Morton, was one of the most popular series to see print in Detective Fiction Weekly magazine in the late 1930s, running over 30 installments. Never before in book form, the Morton & McGarvey series is finally collected in order, along with the original pulp magazine illustrations. Volume 1 contains the first five stories from when the series was originally running in Dime Detective magazine.
Written by Donald Barr Chidsey; cover by Walter Baumhofer; illustrated by John Fleming Gould
The Argosy Library #123
The Corpse Clue: The Complete Cases of Morton & McGarvey, Volume 1 (The Argosy Library) by Donald Barr Chidsey contains the following stories:
- “Prize Bull”
- “Murder by Proxy”
- “The Corpse Clue”
- “The Carrion Clue”
- “The Scar Clue”
