When Dorinda Dances

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Author: Halliday, Brett (1904-1977) [Pseudonym for Davis Dresser] Year: 1951 Publisher: Dodd, Mead Co Place: New York Description: 215 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's original black with orange "red badge" insignia on front cover and orange lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. To save a judge’s daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district. For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington’s greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge’s daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city’s infamous red-light district. Mike Shayne is hired to bring Julia home before the judge’s enemies learn of her new career, but his real job will be keeping her alive. Someone in Miami wants this beautiful dancer dead, and only Mike Shayne can help her. In the nightclubs of Miami Beach, music is played to a deadly beat. Dresser was born in Chicago, Illinois, but mostly grew up in West Texas. Here he lost an eye to barbed wire as a boy, and thus had to wear an eye patch for the rest of his life. At the age of 14, he ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. 5th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by a year of Border Patrol duty on the Rio Grande. After his service, he returned to Texas to

• Binding: Hardcover

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