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cover art by Mitchell Hooks

“The Marvelous Boy.” Cover art for the book of the same name by Peter Corris, published by Fawcett in 1982. Acrylic on board. 533×305 mm; 21×12 inches, on 22 3/4×15-inch board. Signed “Hooks” in lower right image.

3rd (of 42) in the long-running private eye series [owner’s copy]

October 1937 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

October 1937 issue

cover art by Malvin Singer

Carroll John Daly, “Anyone’s Corpse” (Race Williams)

T.T. Flynn, “Burning Ice”

Fred MacIsaac, “Fall-Guy” (Rambler Murphy)

John Lawrence, “Escape Mechanism (Marquis of Broadway)

Cornell Woolrich, “Stuck with Murder”

Donald S. Aitken, “Two Heels Too Many” (Det. Pope)

[updated 11/13/25]