
1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition

1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg


1961 Corgi reissue from Australia

1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis





1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition

1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg


1961 Corgi reissue from Australia

1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis





1958 Horwitz paperback original

1959 US release as a Signet paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
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1961 Horwitz International Edition

cover art by Ron Lesser
1966 Signet reissue



1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad


Saturday Evening Post serialization: Sep 11, Sep 18, Sep 25, Oct 2, Oct 9, Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct 30 1954. – illustration by James Bingham

1957 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger

1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger

1961 Thriller Book Club hardcover

1963 Pan reissue – cover art by Michel
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1981 Mayflower edition from the UK


1961 Collins hardcover, true first with original title – cover designed by Pino Dell-Orco

1962 Collins hardcover, 2nd printing

1962 Scribners hardcover in the US


1963 Popular Library reissue, a paperback original in the US
the back of the book gave away the author’s true name



1968 Fontana reissue – cover art by Renato Fratini

1970 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Bill Johnson





1948 Simon and Schuster hardcover

cover art by Gerald Gregg/ map by Ruth Belew


1951 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1955 Boardman UK softcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin



1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover

1948 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
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1950 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin


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1951 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Rudolph Belarski

1961 Simon and Schuster hardcover, first edition

1961 Black Cat mass market from Grove Press

1966 Hodder paperback from the UK

1966 Pyramid reissue movie tie-in

filmed by Stanley Donen as Arabesque, 1966, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren


New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous published novel. This fix-up novel used several pulp stories which was tied together and fleshed out by Robert Leslie Bellem.

1951 Signet, first paperback reissue
cover art by Carl Bobertz
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