October 1, 2025 – SMB Noir

1953 UK first edition

1953 UK first edition from Arthur Barker

cover art attributed to Fred Charles Rodewald

cover art attributed to Gloria Stoll

pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, just one of the many pen-names he used.

1950 Dutton hardcover, this the later 1`952 Dell softcover

his seventh novel, third with hotel detective Gil Vine

cover art by Willard Downes

better image than previously posted

first published with the pseudonym Stephen Acre in 1942 by Dodd Mead

this the later Popular Library softcover under his own name

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”

Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)

Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”

Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”

Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”

Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”

Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”

John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”

Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill”

R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”