Seattle Mystery Bookshop

1946 Avon digest ~ cover art by Paul Stahr

cover art by Paul Stahr

1957 Simon and Schuster hardcover, this the 1960 softcover reprint.

Quentin was the pseudonym Hugh Wheeler

back cover says the cover art is by Robert McGuire but it doesn’t look like his work.

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Gouache on board, 21 x 16 inches (53.3 x 40.6 cm)
Signed center left: Ace Bran

1972, Jim Brown stars as Gunn, a nightclub owner out for vengeance after the murder of his brother-in-law

cover art by J. George Janes

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1953 Doubleday hardcover, this a later, 1955, reprint

also released as A Big Hand for the Corpse by the Detective Book Club in 1955

“George Bagby” was one of the pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein, who also published as Hampton Stone

cover art by Victor Kalin

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1988 Vortex comics, an erotic crime series written and drawn by Chaykin