PaperBack: “It Ain’t Hay

Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider.


It Ain’t Hay, by David Dodge (Dell, 1949). This is the last of four novels Dodge wrote about hard-boiled San Francisco tax accountant-cum-detective James “Whit” Whitney, a character he had introduced originally in 1941’s Death and Taxes. It Ain’t Hay was published as part of the now-famous Dell “mapbacks” series, with a cover painting by Gerald Gregg.