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December 1947 issue

1951 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Barye Phillips

cover art by Dalton Stevens

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Charles Willeford writing under this pseudonym

author’s only crime novel under this name

cover art by Robert Abbett

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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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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.