


1959 Doubleday hardcover
cover art by Harry Bennett
1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK, below the UK softcover
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad


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


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

Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, British undercover agent
adapted from the novel by Len Deighton


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

[post updated 10/8/25]