
first hardcover edition of the title

Crime Does Not Pay #26 Mile High Pedigree (Lev Gleason, 1943) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. Only two copies have been certified higher than FN/VF 7.0 by CGC to date, and the Mile High Copy rates two notches above the next highest-graded. Third appearance of Mr. Crime. Charles Biro injury-to-eye cover.

Out of the Past (RKO, 1947)m directed by Jacques Tourneur
signed by the stars
best of film noirs, screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring, adapting his own novel, Build My Gallows High, published as by Geoffrey Homes.

September 1959 Dell reissue, first printing, from the 1958 Random House hardcover
winner of the 1959 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America
cover painting by Robert McGinnis