Category: crime fiction

Day of the Ram x 3

1956 Random House hardcover

1957 Bantam reissue

2nd with Southern California private eye Brock Callahan

cover art by Mitchell Hooks

better image than previously posted

1989 No Exit reissue from the UK

The Drowner x 7

1963 Gold Medal paperback original

cover art by Stanley Zukerberg

1964 Robert Hale hardcover in the UK

cover art by Barbara Walton

1966 Pan edition from the UK

1973/4 Fawcett reissue

1976/7 Fawcett reissue

1979 Fawcett reissue

1984 Fawcett reissue (they wised up and went back to the original cover…)

Curtains for the Copper x 3

1941 Dutton hardcover

1944 Dell mapback reissue

cover art by Gerald Gregg, mapback by Ruth Belew


1953 Dell Canadian edition

cover art by Walter Brooks

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A Taste for Violence x 5

1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, a Red Badge Mystery

1949 Dodd Mead hardcover, this the later 1`950 Dell mapback

cover art by Robert Stanley

17th with Miami private eye Mike Shayne

better image than previously posted

map by Ruth Belew

1957 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert Stanley

1962 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1967 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted