A. B. Cunningham wrote more than twenty mysteries starring small town sheriff Jess Roden, with Death Haunts the Dark Lane coming fourteenth. An heiress is murdered and the sheriff has to sniff out the killer—literally making use of tracking dogs, which is why you see a hound in Robert Stanley’s cover art. The series was popular at the time, but isn’t that fondly remembered today. But this Dell mapback edition from 1948, like all the company’s mapbacks, is highly collectible.
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