1978 Random House first edition hardcover, a modern classic
cover illustration by Stan Zagorowoski
1st novel with private eye C.W. Sughrue with begins with the masterful and oft-quoted sentence: “When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.”
cover art by Al Brule
pseudonym of W.T. Ballard, first published in 1942 by Putnam as Say Yes to Murder
first of his series with Lt. Max Hunter
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
