Category: crime fiction
February 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders
cover art by Norman Saunders
better image than previously posted
Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”
Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”
Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”
John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”
Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”
Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”
L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”
August 1930 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Ho Ho Ho!
Holiday party at Nick and Nora’s, The Thin Man, 1934
1965 Signet edition ~ cover art by Robert McGinnis
1966 Signet reissue
December 25, 1926 issue ~ cover art by John A. Coughlin
December 25, 1943 issue ~ cover art by Pete Kuhlhoff
A little Christmas Eve crime
2000 Ballantine hardcover, first printing
debut novel by Phillips, surely a contemporary noir classic
Christmas Eve heist, Wichita, 1979 – what could go wrong?
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.
SMB Noir 
