1963 Gold Star paperback original in the US, revised from the 1960 UK Roberts release as Ripe for Rapture
cover art by Robert Maguire
cover art by Joaquin ‘Chaco’ Chacopino
Hank x 2
Category: british pulp
August 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
December 1946 British issue
1952 Arrow paperback
Crime novel by Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac published in paperback by Arrow. Originally published in the UK as The Woman Who Was in 1954 and two years before in Paris as Celle Qui N’Etais Plus. Made into the classic film Les Diaboliques
April 1942 UK issue
1966, Funeral in Berlin
Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, British undercover agent
adapted from the novel by Len Deighton
The Lethal Sex x 2
1959 Dell paperback original anthology of short stories by women crime writers, an idea initiated by MacDonald
cover painting by Ron Lesser
1962 Fontana edition from the UK
cover art by John L. Baker
better image than previously posted
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1959 UK Panther reissue
1952 Leisure paperback original ~ cover art by Reginald Heade
Killer in the Rain x 6
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First UK Edition, preceding all others. The first collection of these stories.
“Killer in the Rain” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1935)
“The Man Who Liked Dogs” (Black Mask Magazine, Mar. 1936)
“The Curtain” (Black Mask Magazine, Sept. 1936)
“Try the Girl” (Black Mask Magazine, Jan. 1937)
“Mandarin’s Jade” (Dime Detective Magazine, Nov. 1937)
“Bay City Blues” (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1938)
“The Lady in the Lake” (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1939)
“No Crime in the Mountains”(Detective Story Magazine, Sept. 1941)
introduction by Philip Durham
1st Pocket edition, December 1965
June 1973 Bantam reissue
cover art by Tom Adams
July 1977 Ballantine mass market, 3rd print
cover art by Whistlin’ Dixie
1979 Pan/Macmillan reissue – cover photo by Robert Golden
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SMB Noir 
