Category: crime fiction

The Drowner x 7

1963 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Stanley Zukerberg

1964 Robert Hale hardcover in the UK

cover art by Barbara Walton

1966 Pan edition from the UK

1973/4 Fawcett reissue

1976/7 Fawcett reissue

1979 Fawcett reissue

1984 Fawcett reissue (they wised up and went back to the original cover…)

Curtains for the Copper x 3

1941 Dutton hardcover

1944 Dell mapback reissue

cover art by Gerald Gregg, mapback by Ruth Belew


1953 Dell Canadian edition

cover art by Walter Brooks

better image than previously posted

A Taste for Violence x 5

1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, a Red Badge Mystery

1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, this the later 1`950 Dell mapback

cover art by Robert Stanley

17th with Miami private eye Mike Shayne

better image than previously posted

map by Ruth Belew

1957 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley

1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted