1961 Gold Medal paperback original
Charles Willeford writing under this pseudonym
author’s only crime novel under this name
cover art by Robert Abbett
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3rd Matt Helm thriller, 1961 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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Beacon Books, New York, 1955
Banned: 27 August 1956 to 13 October 1971
1955 Beacon paperback original – cover art by Frank Uppwall
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1960 Newsstand Library paperback original
cover art by Robert Bonfils
Willeford’s original title was The Director
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1960 Macmillan hardcover, winner of the Cock Robin award.
this the later 1961 Ace reissue
1967 British paperback from Four Square
published in 1949 by Collins in London and Doubleday in NYC
born in Rangoon, Morna Doris Brown wrote as Elizabeth Ferrars in England but the US publishers changed it to E.X. Ferrars.
cover art by Frank Smith
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1953 E. P. Dutton, 1953, first edition. A Gilt Edged Mystery.
SMB Noir 