Day: September 11, 2025

Double or Quits x 12

1941 Morrow hardcover, his 5th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam

1942 Dell mapback reissue – cover art by Gerald Gregg

1951 British Publishers Guild reissue

1953 Dell reissue, cover art by Fred Scotwood

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1960 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

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British 1961 Corgi reissue

1963 Dell reissue – cover art by Stanley Borack

British 1964 Corgi reissue

1966 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Abbett

early 70s Dell reissue

1991 Avon reissue

2022 Mysterious Press/Open Road reissue

[post updated 9/26]

1958 Gold Medal paperback original – cover art by Gerald Powell

1958 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Gerald Powell

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“Curt Cannon” was a pseudonym of Ed McBain

this, a paperback original grouping of short stories

1950 Signet reissue

Signet Books (September, 1950), first publication with this title

1944 Jefferson House hardcover, Hue and Cry

1951 published in the UK by Dakers as The Murder of Marion Mason

the author’s debut novel

1st in his series with Singer Batts, Shakespearean scholar, hotel owner and armchair detective assisted by his hotel manager Joe Spinder

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