The Case of the Lucky Legs x 19 + 1

`1934 Morrow hardcover, Gardner’s third Perry Mason mystery novel

1935 First National picture – Warren William as Perry Mason

1941 Pocket reissue – cover art by Pierre Martinot

1945 World Publishing/Tower edition

Feature Books #49 Perry Mason (David McKay, 1946) Condition: VG+. Perry Mason in “The Case of the Lucky Legs.” Vernon Greene art

1947 Pocket reissue

1951 Pocket reissue

1952 Morrow Collector’s Edition hardcover reissue – cover by Charles Lofgren

1953 Guild reissue from the UK

1956 Pocket reissue

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1959 Cardinal reissue – cover art by John Fernie

1960 Great Pan reissue from the UK – cover art by Sam Peffer

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1962 Brazilian reissue

1963 Consul reissue from the UK

1960s Consul reissue

1967 Pocket reissue

1967 Sphere reissue from the UK – cover illustration by Bill Botten

1973 Pocket reissue

1990 Ballantine reissue

2015 Ankerwycke reissue

The Case of the Grinning Gorilla x 13 + 1

1952 Morrow hardcover

1953 French edition

1958 Heinemann hardcover edition in the UK

1956 Pocket reissue – cover design by Milton Herder

cover photo of Suzy Parker

1961 Great Pan reissue – cover art by Pat Owen

April 29, 1965 title card for CBS episode

1966 Pocket reissue

1966 Pan reissue

1968 Ballantine reissue

1969 German edition

cover art by Darcy reused from Demars paperback

1969 Mayflower reissue

1973 Pocket reissue

1973 Mayflower reissue from the UK

1974 Heinemann hardcover reissue

Cats Prowl at Night x 9

1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition

1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg

1956 Dell reissue

1961 Corgi reissue from Australia

1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1967 Four Square UK reissue

March 1968 Dell reissue

1975 Dell reissue

1991 Avon reissue

The Real Gone Goose x 5

1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1960 Perma Books reissue

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK

pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein

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

The Satan Bug x 12

1961 Collins hardcover, true first with original title – cover designed by Pino Dell-Orco

1962 Collins hardcover, 2nd printing

1962 Scribners hardcover in the US

1963 Fontana reissue

1963 Popular Library reissue, a paperback original in the US

the back of the book gave away the author’s true name

1964 Fontana reissue

1968 Fontana reissue – cover art by Renato Fratini

1970 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Bill Johnson

1973 Fontana reissue

1974 Fontana reissue

1978 Fawcett reissue

2008 Sterling reissue

September 1939 UK edition ~ cover art J. George Janes

September 1939 UK edition

cover art J. George Janes

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~ Frank Collinson, “Death on the Prairie” [Part 2 of 2] ~ article does not appear in the US issue

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dark Alleys”, 66th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, this one a spy story with Ngat T’oy and Soo Hoo Duck (‘Soo has a name for Jenkins – Sai Yan Pang Yeu: Man of the West Who is My Friend’)

~ Bill Gerry, “Autopsies Tell” [spelling in Hagemann], 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Headless Angel”, 11th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, this one in a swamp

~ John Lawrence, “Death to Spare”, 5th of 14 stories in BM

~ Peter Paige, “I Guard Nudes”, ‘factual article; PP is guard at New York’s World’s Fair’, 1st of 12 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Crime by the Forelock”, 13th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

March 1938 British edition ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

March 1938 British edition

cover art by Raymond S. Pease

contents same as US issue:

~ Max Brand, “The Silent Witness”, short-short, 2nd of 2 BM stories

~ Joseph Csida, “Bank Night Kill”, ‘narrated by a “contest dick”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “You’ll Always Remember Me”, ‘young punk murderer; psychopathic narrator’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 4th of 9 stories in BM

~ Frank Gruber, “Dog Show Murder”, 4th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), 5th of 14 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Three Apes from the East”, ‘Kerry Thorne, detective in L.A.’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 8th of 27 stories in BM

US March 1938 issue

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[US cover added 6/12/26]

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Stone Cold Blonde x 4

pseudonym of Lawrence Lariar

1951 Crown hardcover

1952 Signet reissue – cover art by Harry Schaare

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1952 Boardman UK hardcover

cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1954 Boardman paperback

cover art by Denis McLoughlin