Month: September 2024

cover art by Walter Popp

pen name of Milton K. Ozaki

1955 Graphic Mystery paperback original

cover art by Walter Popp

better image than previously posted

1956 Phantom paperback original from Australia

a number of changes to the cover:

– plant to phone in bottom left corner

— her hair is smoother

–yellow dress to red

–bracelet changed

–jewelry box different color

–background changed to window

–background table different, books different, bookend gone

–front table different

— mantle and logs different

–colors brighter and smoother

cover art by Clarence Doore x 2

cover art by Clarence Doore

1940 Simon and Schuster hardcover as The Bride Wore Black, first novel and the beginning of his “Black” title run

1953 Pyramid reissue

better image than previously posted

August 1961 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine