
cover art by Rudolph Belarski

November 1948 Canadian edition


1960 Simon & Schuster US hardcover, 1963 Boardman UK hardcover
cover art by Denis McLoughlin
13th in his landmark procedural series

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
