crime fiction – Page 256

August 1953 issue

January 1960 Bantam reissue, first printing, first paperback edition

from the July 1957 Random House hardcover

also published as The Soft Talkers

1955 Crown hardcover

November 1956 Signet reissue

cover art by Robert Maguire

4th with Kansas City private eye Johnny April

3rd print March 1964

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cover art by Andrew Bensen

better image than previously posted

[cover updated 1/4/26]

cover art by Norman Saunders

2005 Minotaur hardcover, first print, author’s debut noir novel, classic in that everybody burns

cover art by Richard Lyon

cover art by William Reusswig

1954 Avon reissue

better image than previously posted

October 1957 Perma Book paperback original, first printing

cover painting by James Meese

better image than previously posted

pen name of Evan Hunter AKA Ed McBain