Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual

Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Annual, 1972 This issue contains a complete Mike Shayne short novel by Brett Halliday titled "Kill Mike Shayne!" along with seventeen additional short stories and novelets by various crime and mystery writers. In the featured novel, Miami Mafia boss Big Angelo Perrini orders his three enforcers—Vito "The Shadow" Marrone, Vincent "Trigger Happy" Carrazo, and Don "Snag" Fresco—to execute private detective Mike Shayne, whom Perrini believes leaked information about a narcotics shipment from Algiers to federal authorities and Interpol. Perrini suspects a traitor within his organization, theorizing that an exiled Sicilian criminal named Oreste Manzo has infiltrated his ranks and is attempting to usurp control of the Miami operation. He assigns Marrone to eliminate Manzo while the other two carry out the hit on Shayne. Shayne receives a mysterious phone call from an anonymous woman, setting up an unspecified meeting. Additional stories feature noir and detective fiction by established authors including Edward D. Hoch, James Holding, and Fletcher Flora.