This was the first Brett Halliday novel to be made into a motion picture.

From 1941 to 1947 there were twelve Mike Shayne movies in all; the first seven starred Lloyd Nolan as Shayne, and in the last five Hugh Beaumont played the lead. In 1945 there was a radio program, Michael Shayne, Private Detective, which featured Jeff Chandler.

A television program about the adventures of Shayne appeared in 1960 starring Richard Denning.