
August/September 1937
cover art by Charles DeFeo

based on the book The Kennel Murder Case by S.S Van Dine
actors Eugene Pallette, William Powell, and Robert McWade
Powell played amateur sleuth Philo Vance in a series of movies based on the books

first published by Gold Medal in 1951 as High Red for Dead, and re-titled for this second printing in ‘57. cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
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pseudonym of E(dgar) Hoffman Price
1952 Falcon paperback original
cover art by Howell Dodd
1954 Phantom reissue from Australia with “copied” cover art


9th with private eye team Bertha Cool and Donald Lam



August 1950 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

published in 1951 by Heinemann in London as An Axe to Grind. this the 1960 Australian edition by Horowitz


cover art by Harry Bennett
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cover art by Isabel Dawson
1st of 7 books in his series with Massachusetts State Trooper Ralph Lindsay

cover art by Mitchell Hooks
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1953 Presses de la Cité, French paperback edition

1965 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Barye Phillips
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1992 Xanadu trade paper reissue from the UK

1994 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard reissue


1953 Gold Medal paperback original
also published by Berkley as One for My Money in 1962 and a French film in 1990, It’s Freezing in Hell
cover art by Charles Copeland




2013 Black Curtain Press reissue
