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A couple of price drops in the Michael Shayne series...

Per SYKM, the series was started by Davis Dresser using the pen name, Brett Halliday, and later several other authors wrote as "Brett Halliday". One of these titles, Private Practice, is the second in the series, and was written by Dresser. The other looks to be a collection of two novellas (?) or short stories (?), depending on how you measure...not sure who was the actual author for those.

The Private Practice of Michael Shayne, Mike Shayne #2, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Private-Pract...dp/B00WRYER8I/

Spoiler:

“One of the best of the tough sleuths” tangles with blackmail and murder in Miami Beach in this hardboiled detective tale by one of the all-time greats (The New York Times).

The day he met Phyllis Brighton, Mike Shayne saved her from jumping out a window—and he has been rescuing her ever since. First he helped her beat a murder rap; now he’s trying to pry her away from the sleaziest lawyer in Dade County: Harry Grange. A mouthpiece for every crook in Miami, Grange is running a blackmail racket when Shayne sees him with Phyllis on his arm at a local gambling hall. Shayne warns his friend to ditch her crooked beau, but she is too proud to take his advice. Unfortunately for her, the relationship will end with murder.

Shayne gets the call just after he gets back to his office. Harry Grange has been found dead on the sands of Miami Beach. Even worse, Shayne’s gun is missing and his friend Larry Kincaid may have used it to gun down the blackmailing lawyer. To save his friends, Mike Shayne will have to outsmart the cleverest killer in town.

Adapted into the film Michael Shayne, Private Detective, this classic PI novel is part of the long-running mystery series that also inspired a 1940s radio show and translations around the world.

Dead Man's Diary and A Taste for Cognac, $2.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mans-Dia...dp/B0751Z7JD7/
Kobo US (coupon/VIPable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...ste-for-cognac

Spoiler:

A double shot of iconic Miami PI Mike Shayne—“one of the best of the tough sleuths” (The New York Times).

Dead Man’s Diary: Florida private investigator Mike Shayne’s in New Orleans at the behest of a distraught wife whose war-hero husband, Jasper Groat, has gone missing—along with his diary, a harrowing soon-to-be-published daily account of being set adrift in a lifeboat with two shipmates. Rumor has it it’s also an incriminating confessional. With two corpses—and counting—it looks to Shayne like someone would prefer if Jasper and his damning revelations had been buried at sea.

A Taste for Cognac: One minute, PI Mike Shayne’s having a quick afternoon cocktail in a Miami dive. The next, he’s been solicited to investigate an intoxicating conspiracy involving the parole of an aging bootlegger, a secretive old sea captain tortured to death, a missing female reporter, and two dozen bottles of prewar cognac—vintage, valuable, and apparently worth killing for. If anybody can pop the cork on this case, it’s Shayne.

Brett Halliday’s “fast‐paced world of violence, intrigues, complex twists and voluptuous women” inspired film, radio, and television adaptations, as well as the long-running Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine (The New York Times).