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CELLINI SMITH DETECTIVE.
Stamford, CT: Stamford House, [1946]. Small octavo, cover by Hoffman, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pony Book 54. Detective novel.
CELLINI SMITH: DETECTIVE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The final Cellini Smith novel. Cellini Smith is hired to solve a murder case-for a retainer of $26.94. "In just three novels and nine black mask novelettes, Robert Reeves produced some of the most entertaining and offbeat hard-boiled crime fiction of the late Thirties and early Forties." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 669-70. [Note-Reeves was primarily a Black Mask author and had a dozen pieces of short fiction in the pulps]. Reeves career was unfortunately cut short as he was killed in action in WW II. [Reference: Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 669-70. Hubin, p. 672].
DEAD AND DONE FOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-288 [289: blank] [290: printer's information] [291-294: blank], original burnt orange cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue, top edge stained blue. First edition. The first Cellini Smith novel, set in New York. "In just three novels and nine black mask novelettes, Robert Reeves produced some of the most entertaining and offbeat hard-boiled crime fiction of the late Thirties and early Forties." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 669-70. [Note-Reeves was primarily a Black Mask author and had a dozen pieces of short fiction in the pulps]. Reeves career was unfortunately cut short as he was killed in action in WW II. [Reference: Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 669-70. Hubin, p. 672].
DEAD AND DONE FOR.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, nd, [c1940]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. The first Cellini Smith novel, set in New York. "In just three novels and nine black mask novelettes, Robert Reeves produced some of the most entertaining and offbeat hard-boiled crime fiction of the late Thirties and early Forties." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 669-70. [Note-Reeves was primarily a Black Mask author and had a dozen pieces of short fiction in the pulps]. Reeves career was unfortunately cut short as he was killed in action in WW II. [Reference: Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 669-70. Hubin, p. 672].