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1947 publicity shot – The Lady in the Lake

Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter in The Lady in the Lake (1947).

1957 Simon and Schuster hardcover, this the 1960 softcover reprint.

Quentin was the pseudonym Hugh Wheeler

back cover says the cover art is by Robert McGuire but it doesn’t look like his work.

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Gouache on board, 21 x 16 inches (53.3 x 40.6 cm)
Signed center left: Ace Bran

cover art by J. George Janes

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1953 Doubleday hardcover, this a later, 1955, reprint

also released as A Big Hand for the Corpse by the Detective Book Club in 1955

“George Bagby” was one of the pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein, who also published as Hampton Stone

cover art by Victor Kalin

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cover art by Norman Saunders

first of only five issue

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1960 Horowitz hardcover, this the US Signet release that same year.

cover painting by Barye Phillips

cover art by Ron Lesser

Original paperback art by Ron Lesser. The model was Lesser’s wife, Claudia.

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