1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
“The Simple Art of Murder” (Atlantic Monthly, Dec 1944)
“Spanish Blood” (Black Mask Magazine, Nov 1935)
“I’ll Be Waiting” (Saturday Evening Post, Dec 1939)
“The King in Yellow” (Dime Detective Magazine, Mar 1938)
“Pearls are a Nuisance” (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
After a start with tumblr (about 5 years of work) and then newtumbl (4 years) this will be, I hope, the last iteration of a project to display the best hardboiled images from magazine and book covers to film noir and movie stills and posters. All things crime and mystery related, from the first decades of the 20th C. to now. Some posts will be straight imports from tumblr, some will be upgraded images, and then new images. If newtumbl ever allows us to rescue those thousands of posts, they’ll show up here. Hope your enjoy!
SMB Noir 