
1969 Signet paperback, third printing
cover art by Robert McGinnis

1969 Signet paperback, third printing
cover art by Robert McGinnis

1931, 29 in (73.66 cm) x 23.5 in (59.69 cm), oil on canvas
The Complete Detective Cover, February 1931


one of the few times a Continental Op story by Dashiell Hammett was not in a copy of Black Mask Magazine: “Who Killed Bob Teal?”

cover art by Julius Erbit
better image than previously posted
~ Eustace Hale Ball, “A Vengeance of Death”, ‘A Black Mask Fantasy’
~ Harold De Polo, “Salted”, 3rd of 6 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “The New Racket”, ‘billed as a ‘tip for judges and lawyers’, 7th of 45 stories in BM
~ C.S. Montanye (Carleton Stevens), “The Lady in Handcuffs”, 6th of 10 with ‘Captain Valentine, that ‘attractive European scalawag’, adventurer and rascal’ 22th of 29 stories in BM
~ Herman Petersen, “That Yellow Devil”, 2nd of 2 parts, ‘Madame Pinar, Eurasian’, 17th of 20 stories in BM
~ Edith Lyle Ragsdale, “The Curse of Indra”, ‘daytime story’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ R.T.M. Scott (Reginald Thomas Maitland), “Esses Pip Seven”, ‘billed as a “novelty for veterans”’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Aeroplane Burglar” 25th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series
~ Herbert Elisha Stover, “Fangs”, last of 3 pieces in BM
~ Merlin Moore Taylor, “Chains That Bind”, ‘billed as “A gripping detective novelette”’, 5th of 8 appearances in BM
~ Edwin Goodenow Wood, “Devil’s Bowl”, ‘Advertised as “A Novelette of Strangeness and Swiftness”’, 1st of 2 stories in BM
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1969 Macmillan first edition, ‘a Cock Robin Mystery’

2013 Doubleday hardcover
cover design bt Michael J. Windsor
his 10th Easy Rawlins novel, this one set in 1967