
Category: crime fiction
The Mistress x 5 + 1

1958 Horwitz paperback original

1959 US release as a Signet paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
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1961 Horwitz International Edition

cover art by Ron Lesser
1966 Signet reissue


The Real Gone Goose x 5

1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK
pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein
30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad
Armchair in Hell x 6

1948 Simon and Schuster hardcover

cover art by Gerald Gregg/ map by Ruth Belew


1951 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1955 Boardman UK softcover – cover art by Denis McLoughlin


A Halo for Nobody x 5

1947 Simon and Schuster hardcover

1948 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg, map by Ruth Belew
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1950 Boardman hardcover from the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin


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Winter Kill x 2


1951 Popular Library reissue
cover art by Rudolph Belarski
The Cypher aka Arabesque

1961 Simon and Schuster hardcover, first edition

1961 Black Cat mass market from Grove Press

1966 Hodder paperback from the UK

1966 Pyramid reissue movie tie-in

filmed by Stanley Donen as Arabesque, 1966, with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren

Contraband x 3

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous published novel. This fix-up novel used several pulp stories which was tied together and fleshed out by Robert Leslie Bellem.

1951 Signet, first paperback reissue
cover art by Carl Bobertz
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