
1963 Corgi UK paperback original
cover art by Renato Fratini


1969 Signet edition – 1st US edition
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted

cover art by Terry Gilbert

1963 Corgi UK paperback original
cover art by Renato Fratini


1969 Signet edition – 1st US edition
cover art by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted

cover art by Terry Gilbert

cover art by Verne Tossey

cover art by Larry Newquist
better image than previously posted

cover art by Sheldon

cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted

1958 Bestseller Library edition

cover art by Edgar Hodges

1951 White Circle reissue
cover art by John Fernie

1950 Simon & Schuster hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell paperback reissue
stand-alone mystery
cover art by George Geygan
better image than previously posted


1959 J reissue, #71
cover art by Giovanni Benvenuti
one of John Creasey’s many pseudonyms (he used 20 or so with his 500 plus novels)
the Ashe books featured Patrick Dawlish and this is the 21st, published by Evans in 1949

“Patrick Quentin” was the pseudonym of Hugh Wheeler and Richard Wilson Webb
published in the US in 1952 as Black Widow, a Simon & Schuster hardcover. published the following year in the UK by Gollancz with this different title. 8th with Broadway producer Peter Duluth.
cover art by Sam Peffer?

another source dates this as #6, 195?, but the stories are from the June 1953 US edition. would need the title page of the UK copy to know the date. same cover art for both.