Stanley’s Style: How a Realist Made His Mark

The Long Escape, by David Dodge (Dell, 1950). Cover illustration by Robert Stanley. (Editor’s note: This piece comes from Randal S. Brandt, a librarian at the University of California, Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. Brandt is also the creator of two critically lauded Web sites: Golden Gate Mysteries, an annotated bibliography of crime fiction set in the San Francisco Bay Area; and A David Dodge