Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith

By Robert Reeves

Long considered one of the best of the Black Mask authors, author Robert Reeves's longest-running detective character actually first appeared in the 1939 novel, Dead and Done For. Cellini Smith, accountant for a New York City pinball gangster, must clear his boss's name after being accused of murder. Featuring an introduction by Black Mask editor Kenneth S. White, and a cover illustration by the great Rafael de Soto."The three men stepped out of the elevator and walked down the corridor. The thick maroon carpet absorbed their foot-falls. They stopped at the fifth floor. The man with the soft fingers drew out a thirty-eight. He was no longer nervous. The man with the pleasant voice pulled a shotgun from under his topcoat. Then the big man flung the door wide open. There was a body sprawled over the floor of the living-room. Someone had been there before them...."And to Tony, the wise-guy, the big-shot, who had a beautiful alibi for the time when he walked into that room but had none at all for earlier in the day, was a cinch for the cops. To whom could he turn? Only Cellini. A scholar and athlete, he was nevertheless a gangster's employee. He know his way around. Tony got his money's worth out of him. By the time Cellini got through, there were other corpses...."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618274716
• ISBN13: 9781618274717
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Black Mask
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"