
1931 Collins hardcover in the UK, out the same year from Doubleday in the US.
this is the later abridged softcover edition

1931 Collins hardcover in the UK, out the same year from Doubleday in the US.
this is the later abridged softcover edition

1948 Martin & Reid Publishing paperback original
written by Mick Anglo
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cover stories from January 1946 US issue of Ten Detective Aces
Robert C. Dennis, “Ten Grand Tornado”
Joe Archibald, “Hot Ice Scream”

1960 Roberts paperback as Cutie On Call
this is the revised 1964 Gold Star paperback

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1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English
3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani


Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed
– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –


1957 Phantom edition from Australia



WHITFIELD, Raoul (1897?-1945). The Virgin Kills. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932.
8o. Original canary yellow cloth; pictorial dust jacket by J.V.W. Oliver (very minor chipping to ends of spine panel; short tear to lower edge of back panel).
FIRST EDITION, in the scarce dust jacket. “Death went up the river with the Virgin, Eric Vennell’s yacht, when that millionaire gambler sailed for the Regatta at Poughkeepsie with his oddly assorted guests” (dust jacket). Illustration on page 56.
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1986 Quill paperback reissue of his 1932 hardcover
Apparently, the novel was not serialized in any magazine before publication

1988 No Exit Press from the UK
cover photo by Weegee