Seattle Mystery Bookshop

February 1953 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

cover art by Norman Saunders

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originally published in the US by GM Books # s845, 1959

reissue from Stark House Press, 2013

cover art by Victor Kalin

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cover art by Dick Shelton

[updated 9/22/25]

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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