2000 Ballantine hardcover, first printing
debut novel by Phillips, surely a contemporary noir classic
Christmas Eve heist, Wichita, 1979 – what could go wrong?
A little Christmas Eve crime
Category: crime fiction
Holiday Heist
1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print
1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue
An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.
December 19, 1925 issue
January 1934 issue ~ cover art by Lyman Anderson
Ho Ho Ho – – –
Die Hard, 1988
February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Ernest Chiriacka
January 1931 issue ~ cover art by Alex Redmond
1965 Horwitz
1952 Bloodhound reissue ~ cover art by Dennis McLoughlin
1951 Lippencott hardcover
1952 UK Bloodhound paperback reissue
cover art by Dennis McLoughlin
4th with Peter Chambers, private eye (Kane disliked the term ‘private dick’ , preferring ‘private richard’)
1959 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis
August 1959 Dell reissue, first printing
completed by Ed McBain after Rice’s death
cover painting by Robert McGinnis
better image than previously posted
SMB Noir 