
cover art by Reginald Heade
better image than previously posted

cover art by Albert Drake
better image than previously posted

debut issue, 1950s UK version of Ten Detective Aces
[updated 7/19/25]

cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
~ Dale Clark, “Heavenly Homicide”, 27th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 31st of 32 stories in BM
~ William Campbell Gault, “The Cold, Cold Ground”, 2nd of 5 with Mortimer Jones, 2nd of 9 stories in BM
~ Julius Long, “I Remember Murder”, 15th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 20th of 23 stories in BM
~ Donn Mullally, “The Corpse I Left Behind Me”, ’Martin Fowler in Hollywood’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ William Rough, “Hot Ice”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; last of 5 capers’ in BM
~ Donegan Wiggins, “The Double-Cross”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s only appearance in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

[UK cover added 5/16/25]

Sweetheart With a Wreath, paperback cover, 1953
Watercolor and gouache on board with paper appliqué
14.25 x 9.25 in. (sight)
Signed lower left
This painting, originally depicting a blonde, was published as the cover for Curves Cause Trouble by Gene Ross, Leisure Library #21, 1953. The work was subsequently published as the cover of Sweetheart With a Wreath by Michael Storme, Harborough, 1953, for which the image was manipulated to illustrate a darker haired female in a black tiara.


consists of stories from US Thrilling Detective, October and February 1944 – cover art is from the October 1945 US edition