5th in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, originally published in 1930 – this a later reissue and, certainly, ‘pulped up’ and made to appear much more hardboiled. It is also the novel in which Lord Peter first meets the love of his life, mystery writer Harriet Vane
February 1945 Canadian issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
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John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”
Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)
Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”
Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)
Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”
Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”
Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”
Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”
Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Mel Cotton, “Kill and Make Up” (Det. Winters)
Talmage Powell, “There Was a Crooked Man”
Cornell Woolrich, “The Fatal Footlights” (reprinted from 1941)
Walter Snow, “Exclusive Sucker”
W.P. Brothers, “Mourner’s Bench”
Harvey Weinstein, “Spoiler for a Wise Guy”
Robert Martin, “Murder on the Make”
1951 Dell mapback – cover art by Barye Phillips
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1949 Random House hardcover
her 18th with Insp. Christopher McKee, the Scotsman in charge of the Manhattan Homicide Squad
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