
cover art by Alan Hughes

cover art by William Reusswig
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder & Co.” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Carrion Cargo” (Eliot Knox)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Snatch as Snatch Can” (Paul Pry)
Ralph Oppenheim, “Brand of the Beast” (Glen Kelsey, PI)


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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