Day: May 1, 2024
1957 Perma Books paperback original
July 1939 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Scott
April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
December 1936 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
Robert Wallace (W. Ryerson Johnson), “The Silent Death” (Richard Curtis Van Loan/The Phantom Detective)
Robert C. Blackmon, “Nailed”
Robert H. Leitfred, “Allison’s Last Pinch”
Hugh Austin, “Storeroom of Death”
Leonard B. Rosborough, “Steele Preferred”
better image than previously posted
June 10, 1939 issue ~ cover art by Emmett Watson
cover art by Emmett Watson
February 1943 issue
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1939 Knopf hardcover – cover art by Hawkins
First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Rare hard-boiled mystery by this author who died young in 1945.
first novel with private eye Cellini Smith
there had been seven Smith short stories published in Black Mask Magazine by the time of the author’s death.
cover art by Robert Peak
Mixed media with collage on board, 28-1/2 x 24 inches (72.4 x 61.0 cm) (sight)
Signed lower center
March 9, 1929 issue ~ cover art by Gayle Hoskins
cover art by Gayle Hoskins