
Anne Parillaud as Nikita
Nikita, 1990, directed and written by Luc Besson
released in 1991 in the US as La Femme Nikita

Anne Parillaud as Nikita
Nikita, 1990, directed and written by Luc Besson
released in 1991 in the US as La Femme Nikita

1958 Simon hardcover, this the 1959 Dell reissue
cover art by Robert McGinnis
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1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover
Kane’s debut novel and debut of Chambers

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1950 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

Kane’s first with private eye (Kane preferred “private Richard”) Peter Chambers, a 1947 Simon & Schuster hardcover. The title was changed for the revised 1956 Avon softcover.
cover art by Ray Johnson

1955 Boardman paperback – Denis McLoughlin cover art

1960 Avon reissue – cover art by Ray Johnson
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1957 Pyramid paperback original
cover art by Harry Schaare
first of eleven with private eye Honey West
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1932, Paul Muni as Scarface

cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer
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~ Guthrie Brown, “Stalemate”, ‘Western lynching’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Shooting Out of Town”, 37th of 53 with Race Williams who ‘goes out of town on a gun job’, 49thof 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Nagasaki Bound”, 1st half of Jo Gar story, 6th of 24 stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ J. J. Des Ormeaux, “The Dago Trick”, ‘crook tale’, 2nd of 5 stories in BM (pseudonym of Forrest Rosaire)
~ Joseph Harrington, “Footloose Goes Astray”, ‘Western’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Shake-Down”, 12th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 25 of 67 stories in BM
~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Bullets for Murder”, 4th of 6 stories with ‘Phil Craleigh, once brilliant lawyer, now a drunk, given to bouts of reform’, million-dollar robbery, 13th of 17 stories in BM as a couple
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Death in a Bowl”, 1st of 3 serialized parts, ‘Ben Jardinn, Hollywood eye, & murder in Hollywood Bowl’, ‘(originally titled The Maestro Murder)’, published in hardcover in 1931 by Knopf, 41st of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
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cover art by James Meese
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