cover art by Walter Baumhofer
better image than previously posted
Category: crime fiction
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.
