
cover art by Norman Saunders

1953 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted
his third book, later reprinted as The Hot Spot, made into a movie directed by Dennis Hopper in 1990, staring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly and Virginia Madsen

adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely, his second novel with LA PI Philip Marlowe

Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain
first published in 1958 by Simon & Schuster, one of his ‘straight’ straight, not a crime novel
cover art by Barye Phillips
adapted into a 1960 movie with Kim Novak and Kirk Douglas