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July 1950 issue ~ cover art by Richard Cardiff

cover art by Richard Cardiff

September 1945 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll??

better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted

1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”

cover art by Victor Kalin

better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted

[post updated 10/24/26]

1951 Harlequin paperback original

cover art by Max Ralph

released in the US as Sailor’s Leave, 1953

better image than previously posted

1965 UK edition with original title

November 1952

cover art by Michael McCann

nowhere can I find the name of the cover artist

1959 Doubleday hardcover

cover art by Harry Bennett

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK, below the UK softcover

pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein

30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad