December 2023 – Page 3

1952 Signet reissue – cover art by Lu Kimmel

May 1952 Signet paperback, first printing

5th novel, a stand-alone thriller

cover art by Lu Kimmel

included Cornell Woolrich’s “Vampire’s Honeymoon”

January 1956 subscription issue – different cover from the newsstand issue

[post updated 1/1/24]

cover art by Robert McGinnis

cover art by H.J. Ward

[cover updated 11/18/25]

cover art by R.C. Wardell

better image than previously posted

Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

better image than previously posted

his 3rd novel, a tale of municipal corruption, published two years before his first Lew Archer

Michael Clarke Duncan as the crime lord and Marvel Comics villain