
cover art by Victor Kalin
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cover art by Robert McGinnis

1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English
3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani


Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed
– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –


1957 Phantom edition from Australia



1960 Gold Medal paperback original
pen name of Robert Terrall
cover art by Mitchell Hooks

1952 Gold Medal paperback original

reissues normally do not use a different version from the same photo shoot

1954 Phantom edition from Australia


cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick C. Davis, “The Green Ghoul” (Oke Oakley)
Donald Barr Chidsey, “The Scar Clue” (Morton & McGarvey)
Hugh B. Cave, “The Brand of Kane” (Peter Kane)
Fred MacIsaac, “Heir-Cooled” (Rambler Murphy)
Phillip Clark, “Three-Letter Kill”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “Key to Murder” (Ted James)
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better image than previously posted
Frederick C. Davis, “Some Like ‘Em Dead”
Julius Long, “On the Homicide of the Street” (C.D. Mort)
Henry Norton, “Once Upon a Tomb” (Pinero Pershing)
William R. Cox, “Objective – Murder!” (Malachi Manatee)
Thorne Lee, “Death in the Groove”



1956 Dell reissue
cover art by Victor Kalin

cover art by Harry Bennett
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