crime fiction – Page 117

May 1935 issue

cover art attributed to Rafael DeSoto

cover art by John A. Coughlin

1941 Knopf hardcover, 1945 Avon reissue

cover art by Paul Stahr

published by Hale in the UK as Murder for Hannah

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cover art by William Frost (William Forrest)

“The second appearance of the character Hanna Van Doren, considered the first female hard-boiled detective in American literature.”

September 1945 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll??

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1949 Simon & Schuster hardcover, his third with private eye Peter Chambers. Kane preferred “private richard” to “private dick”

cover art by Victor Kalin

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1951 Harlequin paperback original

cover art by Max Ralph

released in the US as Sailor’s Leave, 1953

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1965 UK edition with original title

pseudonym of Robert (Lee) Martin
1959 Dodd Mead hardcover, this the later 1960 Crest reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

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Stewart Sterling was a pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, who also wrote under four other names.

1951 Dutton hardcover, this the later 1953 Dell reprint

cover art by Bob Hilbert

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